The French colonial empire encompassed vast territories in northern, central, and western Africa, comprising 18 modern-day African countries. However, France's colonial policies were primarily driven ...

The U.N. cultural agency has approved a new addition to its world heritage registrar with hundreds of records documenting people who were enslaved in the French colonial empire.

Le Figaro’s correspondents polled 500 citizens, a cross section of the population, on French colonial geography. Last week the paper reported the gratifyingly horrendous results.

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

The series of coups in Africa in nations of the former French colonial empire is unfolding amid a growing radicalization among workers and youth on the continent. After a decade of relentless NATO ...

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

The French army’s choir sang “The Commandos of Africa" before Cameroonian President Biya took the stand. “The thousands of men … came from all over the French colonial empire,” Biya said. “The ...

The French Colonial Government canceled military leaves, closed the port of Haiphong, suspended railway traffic throughout the colony, manned coastal defenses, barricaded streets and squares in ...

In particular, the French colonial empire, spanning Africa and Southeast Asia, saw a significant expansion of hevea plantations at the expense of primary forests.

That part of the world, called the Maghreb, encompasses Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, all of which were part of the French colonial empire for many years.

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.