Mozambique ended five centuries of Portuguese domination. Nearly half a century later, the country reflects on a hard-won ...

Is Not in Everyone’s Reach” by António Lobo Antunes, a woman grapples with a long-ago tragedy over the course of a summer ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

A majority of respondents in Angola and Cape Verde believe Portugal should apologise for its colonial past and return artefacts and other items looted during that era, according to a survey released ...

There was a time when the old Portuguese Empire encompassed colonies in both West Africa and East Africa. In terms of South African engagement, being adjacent to both of the regional colonial outposts ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

The Catholic Church observes the feast of John the Baptist on June 24. It is no different in Goa, the former Portuguese ...

July 2 stands out as a pivotal day in history, marked by momentous events that have shaped nations, cultures, and the course ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

Black Earth Rising’ is a reminder that the climate catastrophe is often felt most keenly by the populations who bare least ...

Commissioned for San Francisco millionaire Kate Birdsall Johnson, the painting includes 42 of the collector's favorite cats.