JOHANNESBURG — Africans offered tough love for their leaders and expressed hope for the future today as they assessed progress since 1960, the year that brought independence to a third of the ...

Africans offered tough love for their leaders and expressed hope for the future Tuesday as they assessed progress since 1960, the year that brought independence to a third of the continent. Former U.N ...

The year 1960 is known as the “Year of Africa” because of a number of events that occurred then most notably the independence of seventeen African states. Between January and December of 1960, 17 ...

On Senegal's 50th independence anniversary, it erected the African Renaissance Monument — or rather, had it erected by a North Korean companyJon Orbach/AP Photo/picture alliance "Sixty-five is a ripe ...

When Nigeria became a sovereign nation in1960, expectations were high not only in Africa but in the world at large. The reasons for this was the size of the new nation and its considerable natural ...

She’s a high school girl delighted with her first miniskirt and devastated by assassinations back in America. She’s the girl’s mother, coolly handling a telephone call from school, and the girl’s ...

I really do intend to write about things other than Ivory Coast. I really do. I thought about the many possibilities as I rumbled through the Mozambican countryside two days before Christmas for 600 ...

The year 1960 was to be crucial for Africa: 17 sub-Saharan countries became independent from their European colonisers, 14 of them from France. Harold Macmillan delivers his Wind of Change speech ...