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Chief Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Peace - in 1960
At the 1960 Olympics in Rome an Ethiopian athlete stunned the world.
A doctor who took part in Eritrea's 30 year struggle for independence from Ethiopia
It is exactly 50 years since Nigeria became independent
The 1961 vote lies at the heart of the violent conflict in Cameroon's Anglophone region
The Secretary General of the UN was killed in a plane crash 50 years ago.
It is 50 years since the end of French colonial rule in Algeria.
Amilcar Cabral led the armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in West Africa
Just one month after gaining independence there was an uprising in Zanzibar in 1964.
How Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime in 1964
In 1965 the Latin-American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.
In 1966 a small group of Nigerian army officers launched the country's first ever coup
How one of Africa's most famous independence leaders was overthrown in 1966
In April 1966 thousands of African artists and performers gathered in Senegal
On 21 April 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrived in Jamaica
In the late 1960s Tanzania experimented with a new form of socialism called Ujamaa.
Between 1967 and 1970 there was a civil war in Nigeria over the formation of Biafra.
The leader of Mozambique's fight against colonial rule remembered by his daughter
In 1969 the first President of Uganda, Edward Mutesa, died in exile in London.
In 1972 Burundi’s Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising
In the summer of 1972 the Ugandan leader Idi Amin expelled his country's Asian community
The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.
Dr Henry Chakava made it his life's mission to publish in African languages.
In the 1970s Ethiopia's military regime launched a brutal campaign of repression
