On this day: February 10 in African history

Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Sources: TIME ; The Second World War

Kenyan security forces rounded up ethnic Somali men at the Wagalla airstrip in Wajir County. The official death toll of 57 rests on a government report that has been widely rejected; survivors and community accounts put the dead in the thousands. Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission later called it the country's worst single human rights violation.

Source: Al Jazeera

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Ron Brown was elected chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

Sources: POLITICO ; U.S. Government Publishing Office

Deolinda Rodrigues, Angolan revolutionary, writer and independence activist, was born.

Sources: Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal (Universitat de Barcelona) ; Revista Africa (Universidade do Estado da Bahia)

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Salif Diao, Senegalese international footballer, was born.

Sources: LFChistory.net ; Transfermarkt

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Naby Keïta, Guinean international footballer, was born.

Sources: LFChistory.net ; Transfermarkt

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Kiernan Forbes, the South African rapper known as AKA, was shot dead outside a restaurant on Florida Road in Durban, aged 35. His friend the chef Tebello Motsoane was killed in the same drive-by shooting.

Source: Al Jazeera

Anonymous portrait, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Commandant-General Andries Pretorius installed Mpande as king of the Zulu on the banks of the Black Mfolozi.

Sources: Brill ; Jonathan Ball Publishers