- 1995 — Playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People are hanged by government forces in Nigeria.
- 1964 — Kenya becomes a one-party state after KADU dissolves and its representatives join KANU.
- 2003 — Canaan Banana, the first President of Zimbabwe, dies.
- 1981 — Paul Kipsiele Koech, a Kenyan runner, is born.
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Juzi mjuzi akala mchuzi wa mjusi.
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Translation: The day before yesterday the wise man ate some lizard soup.
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