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Remembering Kwame Nkurumah
Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary who played a major role in the fight for independence in Africa. He became the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, and his main contribution to the liber...
Celebrated across Africa on this day
2Historical Events
9- ? Freedom Day(South Africa) -Commemorates the first post-apartheid elections. 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Milton Margai oversees the merger of political organizations to form the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). - 1960 Togo gains independence from France. 🇹🇬 Togo
- 1961 Sierra Leone gains independence from the British. 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
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Milton Margai leads Sierra Leone to independence within the Commonwealth and assumes office as the nation's first Prime Minister.
- 1994 South Africa introduced the new flag. 🇿🇦 South Africa
- 1994 South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force. 🇿🇦 South Africa
- 1994 Freedom Day commemorates South Africa's first post-apartheid elections. 🇿🇦 South Africa
- 2018 More than 40 Tuareg are killed over two days by suspected jihadists in Menaka region, Mali. 🇲🇱 Mali
Famous Deaths
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Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana, dies. - 1993 Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon, en route to Dakar, Senegal, to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. 🇬🇦 Gabon
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Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician, dies.
