Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

After his death, his son was defeated by the French in 1901. ISLAM AND COLONIALISM IN WEST AFRICA The British colonial administrators had some respect for Islam. They recognised its power to ...

“The French side ... of an oppressive colonial empire. France has faced opposition from some African leaders over what they ...

In November, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced that French army bases were ... anniversary of mass killings of West African soldiers by colonial forces in 1944.

French photographer Yves Monteil was driving in Senegal when he passed a military cemetery in Thiaroye, in the suburbs of Dakar. Friends told him it was the burial site of Senegalese soldiers ...

The common CFA franc currency, used by former French colonies in West and Central Africa, has been a big point of controversy. The currency, created in colonial times, is pegged to the French-used ...

Kryzstof Gorny, urban planning researcher with the University of Poland who has studied the phenomenon of Senegalese streets with French names, explains the background when Dakar became of the capital ...

Dakar has asked the former colonial power’s troops to leave as their presence is “incompatible” with the country’s sovereignty Read Full Arti ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

the Wolof tribe of West Africa, were one of those peoples that the French colonial theorists had decided were a naturally warrior people the Race Guerrre. Troops who should lead an assault and ...

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.

“The French ... colonial empire. France has faced opposition from some African leaders over what they described as a demeaning and heavy-handed approach to the continent. It has suffered ...