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When a Cancelled Poetry Lecture Sparked Algeria's Cultural Uprising
April 1980. The University of Tizi Ouzou in Algeria prepared for a lecture on ancient Berber poetry. Authorities cancelled it. What followed was not quiet acceptance but eruption. Students and workers took to the streets...
Historical Events
6- 1960 South Africa's apartheid government passes the Unlawful Organisations Act, banning the ANC and PAC. 🇿🇦 South Africa
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President Julius Nyerere rejects requests from Kenyan conspirators for military assistance and weapons to support the planned coup. - 1992 Eritrea's Provisional Government issues the Referendum Proclamation for independence. 🇪🇷 Eritrea
- 1994 Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana is assassinated on the first day of the Rwandan genocide. 🇷🇼 Rwanda
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Joyce Banda is inaugurated as Malawi's first female president. - 2019 Massive sit-ins peak near Sudan's army headquarters in Khartoum during the Sudanese Revolution. 🇸🇩 Sudan
Famous Deaths
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Josina Machel, Mozambican liberation fighter and feminist icon, dies.