The cities of Melilla and Ceuta had been Spanish territory since 1497 and 1580 respectively, the latter handed over by Portugal. With the signing of the Treaty of Fez in ... Read More

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From the diary of Howard Carter, November 1922: "After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway … ... Read More

Following the lengthy turmoil of the attempted Katanga Secession, the Joseph Kasavubu's Republic of the Congo (he had become president on 1 July 1960) was a divided country – General ... Read More

"The society governed by one party is exactly that which is governed by one tribe or sect...Only blood-relationship distinguishes a tribe from a party...There is no difference between party struggles ... Read More

On 24 November 1991 Freddie Mercury died of AIDS induced bracho-pneumonia. Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on the island of Zanzibar (then a British Protectorate) on 5 September 1946. ... Read More

The West African monarch who ruled Songhai from 1464 to 1492. Sonni Ali expanded a small kingdom along the Niger River into one of medieval Africa's greatest empires.There are two ... Read More

Robben Island, the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 (out of 27) years, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. It was used as a maximum ... Read More

Can you image spending more than 25 years in a prison on a small, windswept island? The only time you're allowed out of the prison is to go work in ... Read More

"Christianity and Western civilization -- what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!"

On 14 November 1975 the Franco government signed the tripartite Madrid Agreement with Morocco and Mauritania for the proposed administration of the region. Earlier in the month, 6 November, Morocco's ... Read More

On 13 November 1942 Tobruk changed hands for the last time in World War II's North African campaign -- but Montgommery's quarry, Rommel, is nowhere to be found. The port, ... Read More

Thirteen years ago, on 10 November 1995, writer and political activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government after being charged with the murder of four tribal leaders. ... Read More

"We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society ... Read More

Four people are dead in Gauteng, South Africa, after a Zambian resident arrived in SA with an unexpected illness. An unidentified haemorrhagic virus has been given as the culprit. Haemorrhagic viruses ... Read More

Information on how many slaves were shipped from Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas during the sixteenth century can only be estimated as very few records exist for this ... Read More

"As long as somebody else has charge of us, we can lay our mistakes at their door." Kofi Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana, from a speech made to the Gold ... Read More

In June 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organization called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). The following year its name was changed to the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). ... Read More