As INTERNATIONAL tension mounts over South Africa’s policy of apartheid, a series of events have, focused attention on the three little-known territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland.

IN BRITISH WEST AFRICA a bold experiment is approaching its climax. The Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia are on the road to self-government. If all goes according to plan the Gold ...

It was a proud and colorful moment in British colonial history. Flocking into swampy Lagos to hear visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan address the first session of Nigeria’s new Federal ...

Nicholas Westcott is affiliated with the Royal African Society. New British prime minister Liz Truss has never said much in public about Africa. But, in my view, her administration must pay more ...

The setting came right out of the great days of the British Empire. In the gilded splendor of Lancaster House, only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace, sat Moslems in silk turbans, Arabs in ...