Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
BattleOn this day — February 10 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Kenyan security forces kill an estimated thousands of ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre in Wajir County.
Tragedy
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
PoliticsDeolinda Rodrigues, Angolan revolutionary, writer and independence activist, is born.
Birth
CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Salif Diao, Senegalese international footballer, is born.
Birth
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1995 Naby Keïta, Guinean international footballer, is born.
Birth
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2023 AKA, South African rapper and one of the country's best-selling hip-hop artists, is shot and killed in Durban.
Death