30 July – 5 AugustAn initiative to end slavery in Abyssinia is started by Emperor Haile Salasse, an assassination attempt on President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana fails, British Somaliland ... Read More

From 1969 to 1977, when it was banned, the South African Students' Organisation worked tirelessly for the rights of non-white students in South Africa, and in its support of Black ... Read More

Liberia, where the American Colonization Society established its first settlement of Monrovia in 1822 on land 'granted' by local rulers, became an independent republic with a constitution based on that ... Read More

23 – 29 JulyLeague of Nations gives the Egyptian mandate to Britain, Dr Christiaan Neethling Barnard carries out the world's first combined heart and lung transplant, and Liberia becomes an ... Read More

Find out more about Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, Nobel Laureate, and world acclaimed international statesman, who celebrates his 87th birthday today.

A selection of quotes by Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, and world acclaimed international statesman. See also: More Quotes by Nelson ... Read More

16 – 22 JulySouth African statesman and anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is born (and many years later marries Graca Machel), the United States withdraws its offer of help to ... Read More

Unesco has created seven new natural World Heritage Sites, two of which are in Africa: the Wadi Al-Hitan or Whale Valley in Egypt and the Vredefort Dome in South ... Read More

9 – 15 JulyMussolini returns to Rome having given up on his plans for a triumphal entry into Cairo; eleven days after achieving independence as the Republic of Congo, its ... Read More

In a blog entitled We Are Not Whales the writer of Black Looks makes a case against the argument that the Live 8 Concert is at least doing something to ... Read More

For the writer of the Thinker's Room blog, the bomb blasts in London brought back memories of the day a bomb went off at the USA embassy in Nairobi, the ... Read More

2 – 8 JulyIndependence is achieved by several African countries in July – this week it is the turn of Algeria, Cape Verde, and Comoros; British Commander-in-Chief (Middle East) Claude ... Read More