Helene C. Stikkel — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1937 Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician who twice served as President of Nigeria, was born.
BirthOn this day — March 5 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Helene C. Stikkel — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1937 
Khamenei.ir — CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1936 Canaan Banana, theologian and the first President of Zimbabwe, was born.
Birth
Lula Oficial — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1954 João Lourenço, who later became the third President of Angola, was born.
Birth
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 2012 Tropical Storm Irina killed more than 75 people as it passed through Madagascar.
DisasterA suicide car bombing near a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed at least 20 people.
Politics
RomanDeckert — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2016 Hassan al-Turabi, influential Sudanese Islamist politician and theorist, died.
Death