France never really came to terms with its colonial heritage or its colonial mindset. French colonizers went to the Americas in the 16th century, and a hundred years later set up a number of ...

“Cette femme qui voit sans être vue frustre le colonisateur. Il n’y a pas réciprocité.” These words, written in 1959 by Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon, described the deep frustration of the ...

The recent unrest in New Caledonia highlights France’s enduring colonial legacy in Asia and shatters its self-ascribed image as a legitimate Pacific power. The Indigenous Kanak people have clearly ...

France rsquo;s long history in West Africa from colonial rule to post-independence partnerships has shaped deep, complex, and ...

A man cycles past the Government Guest House in Hanoi. Crispy banh mi baguettes, grand colonial facades and babbling Francophone schoolchildren are lingering ...

Mitterand died on 8 January 1996, yet he remains a presence in French politics. The Socialist Party figurehead did not merely lead France from 1981 to 1995; he rearranged the country’s political map, ...

France’s colonial legacy in West Africa has come under renewed scrutiny as demands for reparations and economic justice intensify across the region. At a high-profile roundtable held at the African ...

France still has some level of control over its former colonies, here's how. France and Britain were colonial overlords of Africa; while Britain colonised 22 African countries, France colonised 20.

Eighty years ago this week, as jubilant crowds in Europe celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany, French forces launched a ferocious colonial crackdown in eastern Algeria where demonstrators had dared ...

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