In 1874 the first of what has become known as the Dorslandtreks ('Thirst-land Treks') left Pretoria under the command of Gert Andries Jacobus Alberts, hoping to find better land for ... Read More

The Herenigde Nasionale Party (HNP – 'Reunited National Party') under the leadership of DF Malan becomes the new government in South Africa following a whites-only national election fought over the ... Read More

"In Nyasaland we mean to be masters, and if this is treasonable, make the most of it." Hastings Kamuzu Banda, first president of Malawi, as quoted in Neil Hamilton's Founders of ... Read More

Prior to Italian colonization in 1885, what is now Eritrea had been ruled by the various local warlords or international powers that successively dominated the Red Sea region. On 24 ... Read More

In 1795 The Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa appointed Mungo Park to explore the course of the River Niger – it had been believed ... Read More

"Guard the best in our traditions, but join them to modern progress." Sultan Mohammed V ibn Yusuf of Morocco, as quoted in Rolf Italiaander's The New Leaders of Africa, New Jersey, ... Read More

On 14 May 1991 Winnie Nomzamo Mandela was sentenced to six years for her 'complicity' in the kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom, 14-year-old Stompie Moeketsi Seipei, ... Read More

At 2:15 pm British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, receives the following news from Allied C-in-C General Harold Alexander in North Africa: "Sir, it is my duty to report that the ... Read More

"What right do I have to hold back, to rest, to preserve my health, to have time with my family, when there are other people who are no longer alive ... Read More

Born John Rowlands in Denbigh, Wales, on 28 January 1841, Henry Morton Stanley was the journalist and explorer for the New York Herald famous for his expedition to Africa to ... Read More

Jacob Zuma, still marred by the cloud of corruption (after the court case against him was dropped on a technicality), has been elected by the members of South Africa's parliament ... Read More

Exactly five years after Addis Ababa fell to Mussolini's troops, Emperor Haile Selassie was reinstalled on the Ethiopian throne. He reentered the city through streets lined with black and white ... Read More

"Don't be fooled into looking to Communism for food." Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, as quoted in David Lamb's The Africans, New York, 1985. "Without being Communists, we believe that the ... Read More

A distinctive style of terracotta sculpture associated with the ancient African Nok Culture. These terracotta sculptures date from 500 BCE to 200 CE, representing the earliest example of sub-Saharan tribal ... Read More