The Rumble in the Jungle was the boxing match which took place at the May 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), between the current ... Read More

"I wish that I could bring Stonehenge to Nyasaland [Malawi], to show that there was a time when Britain had a savage culture." Hastings Kamuzu Banda, first president of Malawi, from ... Read More

Transkei lies between Natal and the Kei River, and is an area traditionally inhabited by Xhosa-speaking peoples. In 1913 (pre-Apartheid South Africa) Transkei was the largest single continuous region ... Read More

"[A]ll these African cities are prisons on a large scale, into which you enter of your own will, and, as the significant proverb says, you leave by another's." Sir Richard Burton, ... Read More

Samora Machel, the Mozambican president and thirty-three others were traveling in the Tupolev TU 134A-3, on their way home following the Lusaka Summit in Zambia. The plane crashed in the ... Read More

The way in which we divide the day into hours and minutes, as well as the structure and length of the yearly calendar, owes much to pioneering developments in ancient ... Read More

Today we consider chemistry to be a science, but its roots, back in Ancient Egypt, lie in art and the creation of synthetic pigments. Our knowledge of Ancient Egyptian color ... Read More

On the 9th October 1899, Francis William Reitz, the Zuid Afrikaansche Repulick (ZAR, South African Republic or Transvaal) State Secretary handed an ultimatum to the British Agent Sir William Conyngham ... Read More

It seems that shared government has not proved to be the solution to Zimbabwe's ills. But did anyone really think that it would? Mugabe and Tsvangirai have failed to come ... Read More

Renown journalist John Pilger gives his slant to the recent downfall of South African President Thabo Mbeki suggesting that it was a predictable as the recent collapse of Wall Street. ... Read More

"The wind of change is blowing through this [African] continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept ... Read More

In 1911 Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (now Libya) were the only territories in North Africa not under the control of European nations – they were part of the Ottoman Empire. On ... Read More

The fascist leader of Italy, Benito Mussolini, had long wanted an empire - but there were few opportunities left. Africa, except for one region, Abyssinia, had been carved up by ... Read More

The Zulu nation, forged by Shaka, was a powerful force in southern Africa. Invaded by Voortrekkers, subdued by the British in 1879, and eventually absorbed into South Africa, the many ... Read More