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.

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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 ...

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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.