Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...

BECAUSE OF AND in spite of Hollywood films like The African Queen and television shows like Tarzan, tropical Africa south of the Sahara and north of the Zambezi is terra incognita for most Americans.

THERE’S been too much glib talk in Africa since we all had our independence. Nonsense about oneparty states that Western liberals too often bought, about pseudo-Marxist plans of industrialization that ...

The year 1960 is known as the “Year of Africa” because of a number of events that occurred then most notably the independence of seventeen African states. Between January and December of 1960, 17 ...

In the heartland of Africa, the founding fathers began to see the possibility of self-governance after decades of colonialism. In the West, civil rights leaders mobilized matches against segregation, ...

She was once called “the most dangerous woman in Africa.” But Andrée Blouin, who took part in multiple struggles for ...

(This is Article 4 of the seven-part series, “Bridges of Liberation: Jewish & African Paths to Freedom.” The full disclaimer regarding the author’s independent views is contained in the preceding ...

Juneteenth is widely celebrated within the United States, marking the day that freedom reached all slaves in Confederate states during the American Civil War. Ultimately, chattel slavery was outlawed ...

SIR: I believe there are no coincidences in life. Events are divinely orchestrated. While I am in Senegal, one of the African countries where I feel most comfortable among the many that I have had the ...

As Zambia’s first president, he dominated his country, outliving many of the other frontline leaders who had sponsored southern Africa’s guerrilla wars. By Michael T. Kaufman Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s ...

African Independence is a feature length documentary covering the most epic story of the most important events to happen on the African continent since enslavement and colonization by Europeans. The ...