May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

(PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP/AFP) Holes in the ground, clods of earth next to headstones, dislocated concrete outlines: the Thiaroye military cemetery near Dakar bears the marks of recent excavations meant ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

The People’s National Assembly, the lower house of Algeria’ parliament, began debating a draft law on Saturday seeking to criminalize French colonization. The draft proposal has five chapters with 27 ...

DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, marking the end of ...

Algeria’s parliament has unanimously passed legislation declaring France’s colonisation of the country a crime. On Wednesday, lawmakers stood in the chamber draped in scarves bearing the national ...

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) meets his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune on the sidelines of a G7 summit in Italy in June. — Ludovic MARIN Relations between France and Algeria have hit ...

Bistro Saint Emanuel offers brunch and dinner in historic Downtown Mobile's Fort Conde Village. Enjoy southern flair com ...

The idea of anticolonial translation — picking works, and approaches to those works, that resist or examine the effects of empire — has gained increasing sway among English-language translators and ...

A man cycles past the Government Guest House in Hanoi. Crispy banh mi baguettes, grand colonial facades and babbling Francophone schoolchildren are lingering ...