(Extracts from a speech given by Tanzania’s founding president, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on 6 March 1997) For centuries, we had been oppressed and humiliated…
On 24 January 1994, The Times of London newspaper reported that with South Africa’s first multi-racial election campaign kicking into high gear, the apartheid National Party (NP) opened an office…
When Colonel Eugene de Kock, Head of the C10 Vlakplaas Unit of the apartheid Security Branch, with former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operative, Glory Sedibe (aka “September”), who had been…
On this day, 23 January 2018, a South African jazz and Afro-fusion music icon, Hugh Masekela, passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, surrounded by his family.…
‘‘Why do we sing, why is there art? Art is to give life and hope to the people. Art is for healing broken hearts. Like in Zimbabwe, you don’t sing…
On 22 January 1879, the Battle of Isandlwana was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Eleven days after the British…
(The Complication, Son of Ndaba, is What Happened at Isandlwana) “… the Zulus … did what no European army can do. Armed only with lances and spears, without any firearms,…
On 21 January 1924, Lenin fell into a coma and died later that day. His official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. The…
“If it is true that a revolution can fail even though it is based on perfectly conceived theories – nobody has yet made a successful revolution without a revolutionary theory.”…
On 20 January 1973, a disgruntled former PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) rival Inocêncio Kani, together with another member of PAIGC, shot and killed…