COLUMNIST: AMMA FOSUAH POKU

Portuguese soldiers invaded Conakry, the capital of Guinea, in an attempt to overthrow the President, Ahmed Sékou Touré, ...

Chinua Achebe, author and writer, was born of Igbo parents in Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria. Achebe had his first novel, ...

Kwame Ture (formally know as Stokely Carmichael), political activist and Pan Africanist, died in Conakry, Guinea, after ...

Angola gained independence after a long and bloody war which started in 1961, ending nearly 500 years of Portuguese colo ...

Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to Congress (government) in the United States (US). Thr ...

Dominica gained independence from the United Kingdom with Patrick John as the Prime Minister. John was a leading trade u ...

Patrice Lumumba was arrested in what was then the Belgian Congo, a few days after the local wing of the Movement Nat ...

Olu Awoonor-Gordon, Pan Africanist historian, lecturer, journalist and political activist, was born in Lagos, Nigeria, t ...

The Kenyan Peoples Union (KPU) founded by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was banned by Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya. Odi ...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) published its report into the atrocities committed under apartheid in Sout ...

Grenada was invaded by the combined forces of the United States (US) and the Regional Security System (RSS) based in Bar ...

Northern Rhodesia gained independence from Britain, becoming the Republic of Zambia, with Kenneth Kaunda as President. ...

Zephania Lekoane Mothopeng, former President of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania (South Africa) died at the a ...

Jomo Kenyatta was arrested on this day in 1952 and charged with organising and leading the so-called Mau Mau uprising. O ...

Bobby Seale was born in Dallas, Texas, the United States (US). Seale co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense ...

A state of emergency was declared in Kenya by the British governor in response to organised resistance to colonialism kn ...