His visit includes a trip to a shrine where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced into the treacherous voyage ...

Health workers consistently move from poorer countries to richer ones, a pattern that tracks closely along lines drawn by ...

France's lower house has overwhelmingly approved a bill to ease the return of artworks and artefacts looted during the colonial era, paving the way to address restitution requests from countries ...

Lawmakers in the National Assembly are set to debate draft legislation to facilitate the return of artworks and other prized artefacts looted during the country’s colonial era. The bill, which was ...

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier by Joe Studwell. Atlantic Monthly Press, 435 pages.

The pope’s planned visit to a Catholic chapel in Angola that was connected to the slave trade is seen as a symbolic moment by ...

Zimbabwe's flag, banknotes and coat of arms all feature a stately looking eagle, sitting majestically on a plinth. Known as ...

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa comes at a moment of deep global tension, as wars, inequality and religious divisions intensify ...

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Angola's leaders to "break the cycles of interests" that have plundered and exploited Africa for ...

South Africa returned looted Zimbabwean artefacts, including sacred carvings and human remains, as part of efforts to ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has described reparatory justice for colonialism, enslavement and the trade in enslaved Africans as "key to dismantling systemic ...

A ceremony at the Iziko South African Museum on April 14, 2026, marked the repatriation of ancestral human remains and a ...