22nd October 1999 was a red-letter day in South African boxing history, as both Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga captured world titles. Mbityi, South [...]
On October 20, 2011, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was dragged from a drain pipe, tortured and killed.
Libya’s self-proclaimed “Brother Leader”, the one-ti [...]
On 19 October 1986, the Mozambique President, Samora Machel and 33 other passengers, died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mount [...]
The Uganda Martyrs were Ugandan Christians who were murdered for their faith. Most of the 22 martyrs were killed in a single incident, on 3 June1886. [...]
Black Poetry Day on October 17th honors past and present black poets. The day also commemorates the birth of the first published black poet in the Un [...]
It was a move that drew international attention and controversy when Tommie Smith and John Carlos lifted their fists to give the Black Power salute d [...]
On Oct. 15, 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was co-founded by civil rights activists Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Califo [...]
The African dealflow platform for tech startups, investors and corporates, AfricArena, will be hosting its fourth annual Summit from November 24-25 i [...]
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most [...]
All at once in the mid-19th century, the Mexican American war ended, and the Gold Rush began. California swelled with a sense of both optimism and fo [...]