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Critics agree. “French literature has rarely been interested in the beginnings of colonization,” said Pierre Assouline, a juror of the Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize.
Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what ...
New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.
Associated Press NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization. There’s tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence ...
The teaching of France's imperial past at school is hostage to an ideological framework that euphemises or obscures the abuses of the colonial era ...
THE annexation of Ethiopia has presented the Italian Government with a tremendous problem in colonial administration. No other area in Africa of equal size offers such variety of topography, climate, ...
Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar, bowing in front of a different grave each time.
New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization with tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the white settler ...
New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.