The British colonization of Africa reshaped an entire continent - politically, economically, and culturally. In this video, I ...

Neil Faulkner’s “Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920” is about missions and beliefs, dubious political schemes and still more dubious wars, jingoism and jihad. But, above all ...

Violent from the start. In the first instance, the British empire grew out of military conquest, a bloody business by its very nature. In southern Africa, as elsewhere, it was accompanied by ...

King Charles III stopped short of apologising for “unjustifiable” British colonial violence when he visited Kenya in October. A new book by the historian Stacey Hynd shows the depth of British ...

Elizabeth II did not found the British empire. Nor did she preside over its extension to Southern Africa. It was her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria , who did so.

Africa divided: a new stage in the British Empire In the 1870s, around 10 per cent of the African continent was controlled by European countries. By 1914, this had increased to 90 per cent.

None less than in what was once her African empire. Famously, she was in Kenya (then pronounced by the British as “Keenya”), at the luxury Tree Tops game lodge, when her father died in 1952 .