THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1st December 1955Sunday, December 02, 2012
Rosa Parks was arrested and charged in Montgomery, Alabama, United States US for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white person, when ordered to do so by the bus driver.It is important to note that Rosa Parks was not the first African in America to be arrested for such an act. One of ...
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 22nd November 1970Friday, November 23, 2012
Portuguese soldiers invaded Conakry, the capital of Guinea, in an attempt to overthrow the President, Ahmed Sékou Touré, and capture the leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde PAIGC, Amílcar Cabral. The people of Guinea actively supported the anti-colonial strugg ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 16th November 1930Saturday, November 17, 2012
Chinua Achebe, author and writer, was born of Igbo parents in Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria. Achebe had his first novel, the classic Things Fall Apart, published in 1958. In it he explores the conflict between the traditional values and practices of the Igbo people, and those imposed on them by th ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 15th November 1998Saturday, November 17, 2012
Kwame Ture formally know as Stokely Carmichael, political activist and Pan Africanist, died in Conakry, Guinea, after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad on 29th June 1941, he emigrated to the United States with his family when he was seven years old.Ture became po ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 11th November 1975Sunday, November 11, 2012
Angola gained independence after a long and bloody war which started in 1961, ending nearly 500 years of Portuguese colonial rule.A transitional government made up of the three main liberation organisations - the National Front for the Liberation of Angola FNLA, the Popular Movement for the Li ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 5th November 1968Monday, November 05, 2012
Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to Congress government in the United States US. Three years later in 1971 she helped found the CongressionalBlack Caucus. In 1972, Chisholm became the first African-American woman to seek a US presidential nomination as she sought ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 3rd November 1978Sunday, November 04, 2012
Dominica gained independence from the United Kingdom with Patrick John as the Prime Minister. John was a leading trade unionist and Mayor of Roseau, the capital of Dominica, before becoming Prime Minister.After mass protests in 1979 John was forced to resign, and an interim government was formed ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1st November 1959Friday, November 02, 2012
Patrice Lumumba was arrested in what was then the Belgian Congo, a few days after the local wing of the Movement National Congolais MNC held its congress in Stanleyville. He was charged with making seditious statements and sentenced to six months in jail. Lumumba had formed the MNC in October the ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 31st October 1957Thursday, November 01, 2012
Olu Awoonor-Gordon, Pan Africanist historian, lecturer, journalist and political activist, was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian mother and Sierra Leonean father. Awoonor-Gordon spent his early childhood in England returning to Nigeria around the age of 10. In 1975 he moved to Sierra Leone e ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 30th October 1969Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The Kenyan Peoples Union KPU founded by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was banned by Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya.Odinga had formally been Kenyattas Vice President and a prominent member of the governing party, the Kenya African National Union KANU, but he quit his post and left the KANU as po ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 29th October 1998Monday, October 29, 2012
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC published its report into the atrocities committed under apartheid in South Africa. During the apartheid era, official records state that 220, mainly African anti-apartheid activists, were killed by assassination squads sponsored by the state. A furthe ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 25th October 1983Thursday, October 25, 2012
Grenada was invaded by the combined forces of the United States US and the Regional Security System RSS based in Barbados, in an operation codenamed Operation Urgent Fury. The invasion happened less than a week after Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, was executed following a coup by h ... |
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 24th October 1964Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Northern Rhodesia gained independence from Britain, becoming the Republic of Zambia, with Kenneth Kaunda as President.Post independence Zambia actively supported the liberation movements in other parts of Southern Africa including the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola UNITA i ... |
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