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| B-0008456 | biography | Helen Elizabeth Martins | 1897-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0067969 | biography | Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana | 1899-1995 | – |
| R-0151022 | archive | From Garvey to Lenin, via Kadalie: The ICU’s “Ginger” Faction and the Transformation of Interwar Black Radicalism by Henry Dee | 29 Jul 2021 | – |
| B-0122124 | biography | Jane Gool | 1902-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0085586 | biography | Mary Maria Burton | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0008307 | biography | Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden | 1913-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0007899 | biography | Brian Percy Bunting | 1920-2008 | ✓ |
| E-0095314 | event | About 130 people are reported drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast Cameroon | 20 Mar 2013 | ✓ |
| B-0008165 | biography | Robert Hodgins | 1920-2010 | ✓ |
| B-0008861 | biography | Josie Palmer | 1903-1979 | ✓ |
| B-0064866 | biography | Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0149757 | biography | Solly Mokoetle | 2019 | – |
| B-0008291 | biography | Alex la Guma | 1925-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008172 | biography | Patrick Holo | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0007793 | biography | Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein | 1921 | ✓ |
| R-0124984 | archive | African History Books | 21 May 2018 | – |
| B-0149440 | biography | Mandla Michael Yende | – | ✓ |
| E-0122709 | event | Niger's Independence Day | 30 Jan 2017 | ✓ |
| B-0073823 | biography | Jacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi | 1950 | – |
| B-0141685 | biography | Lucas Manyane Mangope | 1923 | ✓ |
| B-0008274 | biography | Moses Mauane Kotane | 1905-1978 | ✓ |
| P-0016783 | place | Burkina Faso | 21 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0063765 | article | Africa: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence | 3 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0062066 | article | Organization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000 | 31 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0153582 | biography | Khaya Biko | 1944 | ✓ |
| B-0008358 | biography | Samora Machel | 1933-1986 | ✓ |
| A-0099462 | article | Africa Timeline | 20 May 2015 | – |
| B-0100310 | biography | Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga | 1947-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0150068 | biography | Simon Nkoli | 1957-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0150328 | biography | Joey Fourie | 1962 | ✓ |
BiographyHelen Elizabeth Martins
Helen Elizabeth Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern Cape. She was the youngest of six children and spent…
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time…
ArchiveFrom Garvey to Lenin, via Kadalie: The ICU’s “Ginger” Faction and the Transformation of Interwar Black Radicalism by Henry Dee
BiographyJane Gool
Jainub Jane Gool – Tabata was born in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an immigrant from India,…
BiographyMary Maria Burton
Mary Burton was born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved around in…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 from England after serving a five year apprenticeship in London…
BiographyBrian Percy Bunting
Brian Bunting was born on the 9th of April in 1920, at the buntings Regent St home in Johannesburg.he is the son of Sidney Percival Bunting and Rebecca…
EventAbout 130 people are reported drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast Cameroon
… way to Port Gentil , Gabon with passengers from Nigeria, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. The boat is reported to …
BiographyRobert Hodgins
"For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…
BiographyJosie Palmer
Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province), to Georgina Garson and Stephen Bonny Mpama, an…
BiographyJeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe
Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe was born on 18 February 1953 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of…
BiographySolly Mokoetle
Solly Mokoetle was also known as Solly Mpoli in Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) circles, Solly Mokoetle left the country during the first half of 1976. As the influx…
BiographyAlex la Guma
Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage and fiction writing depicting the oppressive measures of…
BiographyPatrick Holo
Patrick Holo is the son of Jo Holo, a pianist in the Á¢Â€Â˜Folk QuartetÁ¢'. As a child Holo built toys made out of the resources he found, which included cars,…
BiographyJacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. At the age of 21,…
African History Books
table { border: none; border-collapse: collapse; } td { border: none; border-color: red; } During the month of May we celebrate Africa…
BiographyMandla Michael Yende
Yende was recruited into the PAC and APLA by Themba Phikwane in Alexandra Township, north of Johannesburg, in 1976. Phikwane, who had just returned from exile…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… the Ivory Coast, Niger, Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) and Volta (now Burkina Faso). The French Fifth …
BiographyJacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi
Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi was born on 7 March 1950 in Johannesburg. Selebi was the African National Congress (ANC) representative to the Soviet Union's…
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
Lucas Manyane Mangope was born west of Zeerust near Bechuanaland border on December 27,1923,the son of a local chief,Mangope graduated from St Peter's School…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian…
PlaceBurkina Faso
… by Niger to the east, Mali to the north and west, and Benin , Togo , Ghana , and Ivory Coast to the south. Burkina …
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… 1897 British punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin sacks and burns down the city, loots its artworks and artifacts, and exiles the Oba of Benin to…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… 1897 British punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin sacks and burns down the city, loots its artworks and artifacts, and exiles the Oba of Benin to…
BiographyKhaya Biko
Early lifeKhaya Biko was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape in 1944, the second of four children of Mzingaye Biko, a police officer and later a clerk, and…
BiographySamora Machel
Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents were poor. Machel…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… but their influence is evident in the Yoruba Kingdom and Benin. Nok sculpture Louvre Image Source 814 BC The city of … Kingdom is established in what is…
BiographyMaxwell Mduduzi Malinga
Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the 1970s and 80s. He was born on 09 November 1947 at Steadville,…
BiographySimon Nkoli
“If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside is darkness and oppression. Outside is freedom.”— Simon Tseko…
BiographyJoey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in Wellington, Cape…