National cultural festival
Annual festival celebrating Eritrean culture, arts, and traditions
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Festival Eritrea
National cultural festival
On this day in African history
- 1952 Oliver Tambo establishes South Africa's first Black legal partnership, Mandela & Tambo, with Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg. · South Africa
- 1960 Benin attains independence from France. · Benin
- 1961 Air Afrique, a co-venture between Air France, UTA and eleven former French African colonies, begins operations.
- 1962 An assassination attempt is made on the first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah.
- 1969 Cyrille Adoula becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Mobutu regime following a major cabinet reorganization. · Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1971 (c.) President Jomo Kenyatta appoints Sir James Wicks as Chief Justice and restructures military command to report directly to the presidency. · Kenya