Much attention has been paid to France’s relationship with New Caledonia in recent months, but France has also been compelled ...

Faction: The French Army The First World War In January 1914 the French Army had 47 divisions. The strength of the army ...

For weeks, the French Caribbean island of Martinique has been the site of at-times violent protests over high living costs ...

"We are in a new stage with the death of George ... "Are we ready to teach the history of French slavery, French colonisation?" he asks. "France's former colonies know their history, but I don ...

The French colonization of Vietnam remains one of the most harrowing chapters in the legacy of European imperialism, leaving ...

With presidents in its pockets, France then imposes control over the currency of its neo-colonies ... that the new regime in Senegal, which has been using anti-French rhetoric similar to that ...

In addition to African troops, there were soldiers from New Caledonia, which has seen recent protests against continued French rule, and the Antilles in the Caribbean. “Without colonial soldiers, ...

They were pushing for an end to a seemingly endless conflict and for a halt to the ghettoization that so many faced in metropolitan France ... a scholar of French colonial history who teaches ...

While France’s silence on its colonial ... This includes trauma from French colonial policies that imposed new names on people and the land, breaking up families and groups.

Yesterday morning, the British Prime Minister travelled to Paris at the invitation of the French President to lay a wreath at ...

and similarly in New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific, another site of recent protests that focused on independence and representation for the indigenous Kanak people. Direct French colonial ...