Senegal distances itself from colonial past, following trend sweeping across West and Central Africa since 2022.

France waged a war marked by "extreme violence" during Cameroon's fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said in the latest officially commissioned study grappling with Paris's colonial ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent remarks about African countries’ “ingratitude” for France’s role in counterterrorism have reignited debates over France’s diminishing influence in Africa.At ...

Recent events in Cameroon have provoked strong reactions among African social media users who have condemned France's alleged ...

French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts ... reminding him that African soldiers had fought for France during World War II. "It was thanks to our ancestors that France exists today," Sonko ...

AFRICA AND FRANCE Britain was never invaded by the Germans. But France was occupied in 1942. There was a Free French government in exile led by Charles De Gaulle. African colonies had to choose ...

Seven years on and the French government's very public commitment to return art and cultural objects back to Africa, seemed to have stalled.

Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military force in the 19th century.