Recent revelations regarding Christopher Columbus’s heritage—suggesting that he may have been a Sephardic Jew from Spain rather than an Italian Catholic—have reignited debates about his legacy and the historical narratives surrounding his
On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola. Boukman was
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In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military intervention—announced, “We have decided on the coordinated and organized withdrawal
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A decade ago, on a road north of Bamako, Mali, the jeep I was driving in had to pull off the road to permit a French military convoy to pass. The convoy
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Recent revelations regarding Christopher Columbus’s heritage—suggesting that he may have been a Sephardic Jew from Spain rather than an Italian Catholic—have reignited debates about his legacy and the historical narratives surrounding his
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