This week in African history
Saturday January 29, 2005
29 January – 4 FebruaryYoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda, anthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart announces the discovery of the 'missing link', and British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, makes his ... Read More
Uganda 25 January 1971
Tuesday January 25, 2005
General Idi Amin Dada takes power in Uganda by military coup while the existing president, Milton Obote, is at a Commonwealth meeting in Singapore. (This was a pre-emptive strike since ... Read More
This week in African history
Saturday January 22, 2005
22 – 28 JanuaryThe British Army suffers its greatest defeat in Africa when 24,000 Zulu warriors overrun a British camp of 1,700 near Isandlwana mountain, General Idi Amin Dada takes ... Read More
New Hominid Fossil Find in Ethiopia
Friday January 21, 2005
The remains of nine early hominids, Ardipithecus ramidus, have been found in northern Ethiopia reports BBC News. The lead author of the report in Nature, Sileshi Semaw, is quoted as ... Read More
This week in African history
Saturday January 15, 2005
15 – 21 January
Birth of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian statesman, prime minister and president, Private Muammar Kadhaffi is promoted to Colonel as he becomes premier of Libya, and King Farouk ... Read More
Photographing Africa: The Degree Confluence Project
Thursday January 13, 2005
The stated goal of the Degree Confluence Project is "to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location". ... Read More
Mark Thatchet Pleas Guilty to Coup Charges
Thursday January 13, 2005
Mark Thatcher, the son of the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke South African anti-mercenary legislation through his involvement in a coup ... Read More
This week in African history
Saturday January 8, 2005
8 – 14 JanuaryThe South African Native National Congress, SANNC, the forerunner of the ANC, is founded in Bloemfontein, the Anglo-Zulu War begins, and South Africans Alan Paton and Pieter ... Read More
Independence in Africa
Saturday January 1, 2005
1 January is independence day for two African countries:
Sudan became an independent republic on 1 January 1956, it had previously been run as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium.
Cameroon, once part of the ... Read More
This week in African history
Saturday January 1, 2005
1 – 7 JanuaryDr Christiaan Barnard performs his second successful heart transplant, Tutankhamen's sarcophagus is found inside a shrine at Luxor, and Joe Slovo, head of the South African Communist ... Read More