Traditional masquerade festival
UNESCO-recognized cultural festival celebrating mothers and female ancestors
Regional
Gelede Festival
Traditional masquerade festival
On this day in African history
- 1828 René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive. · Mali
- 1828 René Caillié enters Timbuktu, becoming the second non-Muslim Westerner to reach the city and the first to return alive. · Mali
- 1960 Milton Margai leads a multi-party delegation to the Sierra Leone Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House in London. · Sierra Leone
- 1961 Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba. · Cuba
- 1961 The Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba fails. · Cuba
- 1988 Gunmen who hijacked a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet are allowed safe passage out of Algeria under an agreement that they free the remaining 31 hostages. Th... · Algeria