Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Colonization Society's mission was to relocate freed Black Americans to Africa. Starting in 1820, thousands of Black ...

A photo of Uganda's president hangs on the wall, left, as Judge Steven Kavuma reads the verdict at the country's Constitutional Court in 2014. (Rebecca Vassie/AP) Perspective by Salmon A. Shomade ...

African literary legend Chinua Achebe died last week at the age of 82. While revisiting his work, The Burton Wire came across a video of Achebe discussing the devastating impact of colonization. It’s ...

"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...

Regulators in South Africa have banned a TV commercial that depicts a black man discovering a foreign land in the 17th century and naming it Europe. Fast-food restaurant Chicken Licken on Friday was ...

For Black people in Texas, Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom that was long overdue. However, the history of what happened after Juneteenth is unknown to many people, even Black Texans. Doris ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new “colonization” ...

On the coast of my home country Ghana there are two hauntingly beautiful castles, formerly used to confine slaves on their way to the New World. My parents refused to let me visit the ...

Apartheid was dismantled in 1994, yet three decades later, South Africa still remains the most unequal country in the world. The roots of this inequality are revealed in this exploration into South ...