Settler colonialism describes how imperial states capture a territory, migrate there, displace or eliminate the “barbarian” ...

France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie ...

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

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So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through ...

Amid parliamentary deadlock, the politics of remembrance has gained momentum in France. Three new initiatives attempt to recognize and heal historical injustices — at least symbolically.

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

From anti-protest legislation to moral policing and land dispossession, the legal relics of the colonial empire still reinforce authoritarianism and elite control decades after independence.

The economy of Haiti, once the jewel of the French colonial empire and then the world's leading exporter of coffee and sugarcane, has since been severely weakened.