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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...
Historical 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.
