Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

Images of starving families in Turkana County are back in the headlines, followed, as always, by a predictable political blame game. But the deeper story is rarely told: Turkana did not simply fall ...

By Princess Yanney One message stood out, one particular briefing gave clarity and hope for better days ahead. Africa, will be heard; willingly or unwillingly ...

Most books on public finance are written by men, from institutions in the global north, about systems designed in the global ...

A French and African diaspora studies expert argued the crucial significance of the Haitian Revolution in broader ...

British administrators manipulated customary law to subordinate women and fracture pre-colonial gender balance.

Since 1945, more than 80 former colonies comprising some 750 million people have gained independence. However, 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories remain on the UN list, home to nearly two million ...

Africa’s leaders must urgently rationalise the mission of regional integration and ensure that common political values underpin its ambitions.

In 1960, known as the “Year of Africa,” 17 African nations gained independence, 13 of them from France, marking the formal collapse of one of Europe’s largest colonial empires . Yet independence did ...

Cubans, whom I call ‘the aristocrats of the West Indies’, have managed to survive efforts by the mighty U.S. to starve, ...

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy ...