Jesus College is set to return a controversial bronze cockerel that was looted from Benin, Nigeria in the 19th century, following a successful campaign from students to reject the “spoils of war”.
The sculpture, known as the Benin bronze, was...
In the last years of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, King Leopold II of Belgium ruled the Congo Free State with a tyranny that was peculiarly brutal even by the cruel and deeply racist standards of...
French Prime Minister Edouard Phillipe was in Senegal over the weekend on an official visit. He held talks with President Macky Sall was the two countries signed seven bilateral accords.
A major historic and cultural highlight of the visit was...
In southern Africa, Botswana precisely, scientists believe they have found the primordial home of human beings before we spread into the different parts of the world.
In a report published by the scientific journal Nature, in October, a group of...
The impact of colonial rule on sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the subject of intense debate and controversy. Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure igniting a furor by arguing that colonialism somehow benefitted...
To what extent can you go to take the perfect picture? This is the story behind The vulture and the little girl, also known as "The Struggling Girl", a famous photograph by Kevin Carter, a South African Photojournalist which...
Commonly known as the warrior queen, Queen Amina of Zaria was the first woman to become the Sarauniya (queen) in a male-dominated society. She expanded the territory of the Hausa people of north Africa to its largest borders in...
Hidden for 21 years in a Dutch flat, an 18th Century Ethiopian crown finally heads home.
The crown was stolen from the East African country dubbed the horn of Africa, which is a rugged, landlocked split country split by the...
Meet Saint Bakhita, The Sudanese Slave Who was made a Catholic Saint in 1992
Saint Josephine Bakhita was born around 1869 in Darfur, Sudan. She was captured by slave-traders at the age of nine, forcibly converted to Islam and sold...
An ancient golden coffin worth $4 million, which is believed to have been looted from Egypt and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City, has been returned to its home in a ceremony...
