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WARNING: Graphic images This week marks the first anniversary of US airman Aaron Bushnell dying after setting himself ablaze outside the Israeli embassy in Washington on…

The execution of Kenyan freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi occurred 68 years ago today. He led the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in Kenya. Dedan…

South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela died on this day in 2013 at the age of 95. Mandela is remembered as the man who helped lead…

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…