With the news that Italy is going to be paying Libya $200 million a year for the next twenty-five years in compensation for the wrongs perpetrated during its 30 year ... Read More

BBC News Online reports that British school children will be required to learn about Britain's involvement in the slave trade, its links to the development of the British Empire and ... Read More

Edgar Rice Burroughs' most famous character, Tarzan, made his first appearance in print on 27 August 1912, in The All-Story magazine (October issue). Burroughs book subsequently spawned 23 sequels. Tarzan ... Read More

The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 26 August 1936 established Egypt as a sovereign state and required Britain to remove all troops except for those deemed necessary to protect the Suez Canal ... Read More

"Conscription was the only way whites felt the pain of apartheid and this made it an ideal mobilising tool -- apartheid wasn't worth dying for.[The End Conscription Campaign] was the ... Read More

BBC News Online reports that the name of Liverpool Hope University, UK, was used in an internet scam targeting students in Nigeria.Students in Nigeria were sent fake degree offer letters, ... Read More

On 19 August 2008 Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, respected statesman and third president of an independent Zambia, died of complications due to an earlier stroke. He will be remembered as a ... Read More

"On one point I failed, and lest new and young travelers fall into the same error which marred much of my enjoyment, this paragraph is written. One must be ... Read More

During the 1970s Uganda was ruled by a despotic president, Idi Amin Dada, whom, popular history has it, declared his title to be: "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal ... Read More

Will Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai become another Joshua Nkomo, who was opposition leader when the country gained independence in 1980. Nkomo's supporters were murdered by Mugabe's soldiers (likewise with ... Read More

Two years after an agreement to do so, Nigeria has ceded the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Given past conflicts in the area, the displacement of people, and the potential revenue ... Read More

After the defeat of his armies by the British in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, King Cetshwayo was exiled from Zululand and moved to Cape Town where he was held ... Read More

It wasn't known at the time, simply because the term Quagga was applied to any zebra found in South Africa, but when the last Quagga mare died in Amsterdam all ... Read More

"Africans need food, water and so on, but we also need affordable computing... I believe that Africa is about to miss a great development opportunity, in much the same way ... Read More

The Phoenician Ship Expedition aims to circumnavigate Africa in a reconstructed Phoenician vessel, to "re-create one of mankind's greatest exploratory voyages in the history of seafaring", mentioned by the Greek ... Read More

Reuters news agency has reported that soldiers in Mauritania have instigated a coup d'état. President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdellahi (who had been in power since 19 April 2007) and Prime ... Read More

Zimbabwe's central bank has issued new bank notes once again to cope with the country's inflation rate (officially at some 2,000,000 percent though more likely around 9,000,000 percent according to ... Read More

Robben Island and the infamous prison where so many political prisoners were incarcerated during South Africa's apartheid era, now has a new shameful aspect to its history. The Mail and ... Read More