More than 400 years ago, in 1619, a British ship landed on the shores of Virginia in what was then a British colony.

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 ...

The Church of Our Lady of Muxima was built by Portuguese colonizers in Angola at the end of the 16th century as part of a fortress complex and became a hub in the slave trade ...

Africa wins UN recognition of slavery as a crime. Backlash grows as debates over reparations and accountability intensify.

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several African countries have erected memorials to the victims of slavery, such as this statue in Senegal [AFP via Getty Images] ...

African countries lead the world in the prevalence of slavery, with the continent comprising 38 of the 50 nations where the scourge is at its worst, according to data by the Walk Free Foundation, an ...

A special committee of the African Union and Caribbean Community, together representing 75 countries, endorsed the demand that European states should pay reparations for “historical mass crimes.” ...

Some African elites benefited from slave trade and colonisation. This must be taken into account in reparation debates.

Every writer of history wants to craft a work that sticks to the ribs of the reader, and no meal does that better than one made from sacred cows. That’s what John Samuel Harpham aims to do in The ...

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has revived the subject of reparations to Africa for the monstrous injustice meted on the continent by the slave trade. He is right. When the story of Africa's ...

In the second part of the series, we established that the widely repeated claim that Europeans remained confined to the ...