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The Axum Obelisk was looted by Italian soldiers in 1937 on the orders of Benito Mussolini
In 1980, Abebech Gobena founded an orphanage in Ethiopia to save children from starvation
In 1994, a college student discovered a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton in Ethiopia
In 1936, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie was exiled in Bath in the UK
In September 1974, a military junta launched a coup against Ethiopia's monarchy
In 2014, Boko Haram drove into Gwoza in Nigeria and began an assault that killed hundreds
In 1984, 11 Dunnes store workers walked out after refusing to handle South African goods
The last whites-only vote in South Africa was held in 1992
Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa in 1990 after 30 years in exile.
Brenda Fassie was a popular South African pop star, dubbed the 'Madonna of the townships'
The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death
In 2002, a nun was sent to northern Uganda to help those suffering from a bloody conflict
In 2003, human rights lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim defended Amina Lawal from death by stoning
Bob Golding turned Ibadan Zoo into one of Nigeria's biggest attractions in the 1970s
In 1975, unarmed Moroccans faced off against gun-carrying Spanish soldiers
In 1972, a Danish brewery created Supermalt
Tanzania's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the official language in the early 1960s
How Zambia became independent in 1964
In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village
Professor Gift Mugano describes when Zimbabwe’s inflation hit 89.7 sextillion per cent
In 1993, a Nigerian Airways flight from Lagos to Abuja was hijacked
In 1966, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, one of Africa's most famous leaders was ousted from power
In 1956 commercial quantities of oil were discovered in Nigeria
In August 2013, the army killed hundreds of protestors in Cairo
