Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1960 More than 15,000 people marched through central London to protest the Sharpeville massacre, a landmark early action of the international anti-apartheid movement.
PoliticsOn this day — March 27 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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Carl Van Vechten — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author and composer who later became a citizen of Ghana, died.
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1993 Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian general and former Prime Minister of Egypt, died.
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