When I briefly lived in South Africa a few years ago, I was surprised to find that most people in the newsroom where I was interning spoke at least two languages: English and a Dutch dialect ...

When South Africa’s apartheid ended, I was in my mid-twenties. Only a fool would have denied then that the future looked uncertain. Nelson Mandela had forged a compromise with white South ...

A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD). By the time World War I broke out, Britain and France collectively controlled 45% of Africa’s population. Germany, late to the show, held on to 9%.