France encouraged an increasing closeness with her colonies on the eve of independence and thereafter. Britain took the view that it would give limited support to its colonies as they moved into ...

The fifteenth century was a period of discoveries. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the vast French undertakings in the Americas and the Indies. The colonial empire of the present day was ...

The HCMC Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of HCMC are among the buildings with typical French architecture in Saigon. Dong Hoa Hiep village in Tien Giang province’s Cai Be district is home to many ...

Most children in the EU, apart from the UK, do not wear school uniforms. French news website LCI says the Provins children - 759 in total - will be encouraged, but not forced, to wear a standard ...

"Are we ready to teach the history of French slavery, French colonisation?" he asks. "France's former colonies know their history, but I don't think our people, our youth, know it." "It can be ...

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“It is very difficult for the Kanak people to live here. The French government still has a colonial strategy in New Caledonia ...

Niger also adopted a new national anthem titled "For the honour of the fatherland", which references the anti-colonial struggle. It replaced "La Nigerienne", whose lyrics were written by French ...