South African freedom fighter and pan-African intellectual Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe would have turned 100 today. Sobukwe was born on 5 December 1924 in a Black township…
Sunday, 1 December, marked the 80th anniversary of the brutal massacre of African soldiers at the French colonial military camp of Thiaroye, Senegal. The soldiers were…
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro (1926-2016) died on this day, 25 November. He was a crucial figure in the international struggle against Western imperialism. An internationalist…
Today marks the 25th death anniversary of Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Tanzania’s first president, who died of leukaemia and a stroke at age 77 on 14 October…
