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

"In all the three hundred years the British were here they didn't build anything for us. They only taught us how to sing 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' and 'God ... Read More

Liberia, where the American Colonization Society established the first settlement, Monrovia, in 1822 on land 'granted' by local rulers, became an independent republic with a constitution based on that of ... Read More

Haile Selassi I, emperor of Ethiopia between 1930 and 1974, was born as Tafari Makonnen on 23 July 1892, at Ejersa Goro in the Harar province, Ethiopia (then Abyssinia). As ... Read More

Chief Albert Luthuli, Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of the ANC (until his death), dies under mysterious circumstances when he is struck by a train on a ... Read More

"We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy ... we have condemned racialism no matter by whom it is professed." Nelson Mandela, defense statement during the Treason Trial, 1961. "Never, never ... Read More

The League of Nations agreed on 20 July 1920 to award former German colonies (lost as a result of World War I) as mandates. Tanganyika (which formed the greater part ... Read More

Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, Nobel Laureate, and world acclaimed international statesman, celebrates his 91st birthday today. Find out more about his fascinating life the prominent role he ... Read More

Launched in 1981 as an initiative to provide film resources to educators and build an appreciation for African cinema, California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema has grown to more than 70 titles ... Read More

Playmobil's African Warrior seems to have multiple cultures combined into a single figure: Maasi clothes, Nguni shield and head ring, a particularly long spear common to the Lake Kingdoms (with ... Read More

"For far too many Africans conflict is a part of life ... these conflicts are a millstone around Africa's neck." "No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit ... Read More

The Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act No 67 of 1952 (commenced 11 July) repealed early laws, which differed from province to province, relating to the carrying ... Read More

Jean-Batiste Marchand, French explorer and soldier, is best known today for his occupation of Fashoda, now known as Kodok, in the Sudan in 1898. Marchand served in Senegal in 1889 ... Read More

The African Union, AU, is a pan-African organization whose aims are to promote unity and solidarity of African countries. The AU replaced the Organization of African Unity, OAU (which had ... Read More

"Guinea-Bissau is a microcosm of a continent where events have conspired against progress, where the future remains a hostage of the past..." David Lamb, as quoted in his book The Africans, ... Read More

Tom Mboya was a Kenyan trade unionist and statesman. Earmarked as Jomo Kenyatta's successor, Mboya was assassinated on 5 July 1969, six years into independence, sparking tribal unrest between Kenyatta's ... Read More

One month into World War II in Africa and both sides were testing the waters – the British had to deal with the potential threat of a French fleet under ... Read More

What is the connection between an island in the North Sea and the reason why Mt Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania rather than Kenya? The answer lies in the Heligoland Treaty ... Read More