The Pacific Science Center is halfway through a five-month exhibition of Lucy, the 3.2 million year old fossilizied partial skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. At a cost of ... Read More

"[A] man is developing himself when he grows, or earns, enough to provide decent conditions for himself and his family; he is not being developed if someone gives him these ... Read More

General Idi Amin Dada took power in Uganda by military coup on 25 January 1971 while the existing president, Milton Obote, was at a Commonwealth meeting in Singapore. This was ... Read More

What will it take for African leaders to recognize how bad the situation is in Zimbabwe? Well several high-profile activists, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are making a stand - supporting ... Read More

Edinburgh University Press are offering free access to all their journals until the end of February. Of particular interest will be Africa, the journal of the International African Institute. Articles ... Read More

"They were all very inquisitive, but they viewed me at first with looks of horror, and repeatedly asked if my countrymen were cannibals. They were very desirous to know what ... Read More

On 18 January 1953 the Governor-General of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, imposed the death penalty for anyone who administered the Mau Mau oath. The Mau Mau were a militant African ... Read More

16 January 2006 was a first for women in Africa with the swearing-in of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as president of Liberia, the first woman on the continent ever to be elected ... Read More

Cetshwayo was the last king of an independent Zulu nation. His warriors defeated the British at Isandlwana, only to be later subdued at oNdini. Cetshwayo returned to Zululand after a ... Read More

"An assegai has been thrust into the belly of the nation, there are not enough tears to mourn for the dead." King Cetshwayo, after his victory at the Battle of Isandlwana, ... Read More

When the British ultimatum delivered to King Cetshwayo's representatives at the Lower Thukela Drift (on 11 December) expired – it required King Cetshwayo to dismantle the Zulu military system, a ... Read More

Now better known as the ANC or African National Congress, the South African Natives National congress was formed in 1912 in Bloemfontein with the intention of uniting "all tribes ... Read More

The Bantu Women's League (which became the ANC Woman's League in 1948 - a few years after membership of the ANC was opened to women), organized by its first president ... Read More

Joe Slovo was an anti-Apartheid activist, one of the founders of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC, and general secretary of the South African Communist Party ... Read More

"When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop." Joe Slovo, from an interview by ... Read More

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was born in Bloemfontein on 3 January 1892. His parents had traveled to South Africa because ... Read More

The South African politician and anti-Apartheid activist, Helen Suzman, who spent 13 years as the sole parliamentary opposition to the National Party's Apartheid government, has died at the age of ... Read More