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The Kiriji War
In 1877, the Kiriji War erupted in West Africa, pitting the Yoruba of the Ibadan Kingdom against their eastern counterparts, the Ekiti-Parapo Yoruba, in a civil conflict. The oppressed eastern kingdoms, including Ijesa,...
Historical Events
8- 1877 The Kiriji War, a civil war between the Yoruba peoples of the western Ibadan Kingdom and the eastern Ekiti-Parapo Yoruba people, begins.
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Sierra Leone chief Bai Bureh and two other leaders of the anti-British Hut Tax Uprising of 1898 are exiled to Ghana, and his followers executed. - 1986 Organization of African Unity (OAU) adopts the Language Plan of Action for Africa in Addis Ababa, establishing the early regional guidelines for indigenous language development. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
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The news programmes on state television – the only TV news allowed in Zaire by dictator Mobutu Sese Seko – begin every broadcast with an image of Mobutu’s head floating through clouds, while a chorus sings his praises. -
The news programmes on state television – the only TV news allowed in Zaire by dictator Mobutu Sese Seko – begin every broadcast with an image of Mobutu’s head floating through clouds, while a chorus sings his praises.
- 2006 The first multi-party elections in forty years take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- 2021 ACALAN launches the annual African Languages Week in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to elevate the social and educational status of indigenous languages. 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
- 2025 President William Ruto assents to the Conflict of Interest Act, 2025, which repeals the Public Officer Ethics Act, 2003, and criminalizes the act of public officers trading with their own employers. 🇰🇪 Kenya
Famous Deaths
6- 1976 Madagascar’s Prime Minister Joel Rakotomalala dies in a helicopter crash in the Indian Ocean off the Madagascar coast.
- 1976 Madagascar’s Prime Minister Joel Rakotomalala dies in a helicopter crash in the Indian Ocean off the Madagascar coast. 🇲🇬 Madagascar
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Sudanese colonel and politician, John Garang, dies. -
First Vice President John Garang dies in a helicopter crash in bad weather while returning to South Sudan from Uganda.
- 2009 Mohammed Yusuf, leader of Boko Haram, dies.
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Shona Ferguson, Botswana-born, South African actor and executive producer, dies.
