Britain and Egypt signed the Condominium Agreement establishing the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, signed by Lord Cromer and Boutros Ghali Pasha. The joint administration it created governed Sudan until independence in 1956.
Source: Britannica
History
Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
On this day: January 19 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Jialiang Gao, www.peace-on-earth.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2019 UNESCO's 2019 inscription recognized Timkat, the colorful Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of Epiphany held every January 19, as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Sources: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage ; Ethiopian News Agency (ENA)
Culture
Library of Congress Life, CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1969 Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist known for Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Farming of Bones, was born.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica (via Internet Archive) ; BlackPast.org
BirthK. Sello Duiker, acclaimed South African novelist known for Thirteen Cents and The Quiet Violence of Dreams, died at age 30.
Sources: The Guardian ; South African History Online
Death