Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Map of Africa (1722). Original from The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel Wikipedia Commons, ...

The story of wildlife conservation in East Africa is often told through spectacular images of beautiful scenery and the region’s charismatic animals. But seldom asked is the question about how those ...

The Kenya visit will be Charles III’s first visit to a Commonwealth nation since becoming monarch last September – Copyright Kokang Information Network/AFP ...

A new collection of essays, including a short one by Mamdani himself, seeks to address the wide-ranging issues which his work raised but did exhaust. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in ...

Africa’s colonial order began collapsing in the 1950s as uprisings, elections, and negotiations reshaped the continent. From ...

For part one of our investigation, please click here. Forced land acquisitions by the British in Kenya during the colonial period affected tens of thousands of people, holding back the country’s ...

But for some, it's not enough. Gideon Mungai was an underground operative during the 1952-1960 Mau Mau revolt which was brutally put down by British colonial forces. “His expression of regret, without ...

I now believe there was in late colonial Kenya a murderous campaign to eliminate Kikuyu people, a campaign that left tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, dead. The Mau Mau uprising has ...

A man wearing a face mask walks through Kibera, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. (Donwilson Odhiambo / SOPA Images via AP Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: The Nation believes that helping readers stay ...

Russia’s recognition of two pro-Russian breakaway regions in Ukraine as “independent states” has been condemned by Kenya’s ambassador to the UN, who used Africa’s past to warn that clinging to the ...