Tromelin Island forms part of the Scattered Islands and a district of the French South ... they requested that colonial authorities send a ship to rescue the Malagasy slaves from the island ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions ... SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW "I got into the French army during the colonial period...and first I was a private, then I became a sergeant ...

In East Africa a ... was intercepting slave ships. The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope, taking slaves from the Zambezi valley and Mozambique. 3. The French had started ...

The American Colonization Society ... through the spreading of Christianity to Africa. He also thought that it would prompt a gradual end to slavery. In keeping with the popular thought of ...

to cooperate with Great Britain for the suppression of the Slave ... In the French Senate on the 27th ult., M. MICHEI, CHEVALLES expressed the wish that the interests of colonization should ...

Founded as a French colonial settlement in the 17th century, Saint-Louis was urbanised in the mid-19th century. It was the capital of Senegal from 1872 to 1957 and played an important cultural and ...

Slavery was one of the cornerstones of European colonization across the Americas ... cruisers on the coasts of the United States and Africa to suppress the slave trade. A further act in 1820 ...

Colombia’s Vice President Francia Marquez has called on former colonial powers to atone for their past and pay slavery ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigeria and Africa to break free from the lingering effects of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism to achieve meaningful ...

"The decision to classify slavery, deportation, and colonization as crimes against humanity and genocide against the peoples of Africa is a crucial step, a victory for Africa in its quest for self ...

"The decision to classify slavery, deportation, and colonization as crimes against humanity and genocide against the peoples ...

The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the fourth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on African Descent in New York said on Tuesday.They urged greater ...