Most countries of the world were at one time or another colonized by Europeans, but a select few managed to retain their ...

Woven into the fabric of modern-day streets, the aging electrical substations of Saigon stand as quiet witnesses to a ...

F rom the emerald waters of Ha Long Bay to the lush rice terraces of Sapa, and from the bustling cities of Hanoi and Saigon to the lantern-lit town of Hoi An and the imperial city of Hue, Vietnam has ...

What is the municipal tree of Saigon? In popular culture, Hanoi is perhaps intricately linked with the paralyzing but often ...

Hanoi architectural works in 1954 - 1986 period are also considered a valuable heritage, which for many decades were ...

Books & the Arts / Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented? Farah Abdessamad In 1931, Paris hosted a spectacular event called the International Colonial Exhibition. Almost 8 million people visited ...

After Malika and Allal marry, he leaves with the French colonial army to fight in Indochina. She and Merzougue soon learn of his death in combat, and Taia stages a touching scene in which the pair ...

AP Biram Senghor, aged 86, frequently visits a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Dakar, Senegal. He bows before different graves each time, seeking his father MBap Senghor's ...

The West Africans were members of the unit called “Tirailleurs Sénégalais,” a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army that fought in both World Wars. According to historians ...

Because history encompasses a certain period of time, but French colonialism has continued from the past to the present day. The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of ...