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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...
Celebrated across Africa on this day
2Historical 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.