Dandara, a leader of the runaway-slave community of Quilombo dos Palmares in Brazil, was captured and took her own life rather than return to slavery.
ResistanceOn this day — February 6 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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The first 86 African American emigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society departed New York to found a settlement in present-day Liberia.
History
CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1952 Princess Elizabeth became Queen on the death of her father George VI, while staying at Treetops, a lodge built into a fig tree in the Aberdares near Nyeri, Kenya. She learned of the accession later that day, from Prince Philip.
Sources: Kenya News Agency ; ABC News (Australia) ; The Royal Family (royal.uk)
History
CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, Wikimedia Commons 1981 The National Resistance Army launched an attack on a Ugandan army installation, beginning the Ugandan Bush War.
Politics
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1913 Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist renowned for major hominid fossil discoveries at Olduvai Gorge, was born.
Source: Britannica
Birth
CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2013 Chokri Belaid, Tunisian opposition lawyer and politician, was assassinated outside his home near Tunis.
Death
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2015 André Brink, acclaimed South African novelist and playwright, died.
Death