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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Sixty-five is a ripe age” – that is how Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara congratulated his country on 65 years of independence. “It’s a moment to reflect together how far we have come, a ...