Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Photo by Eric Koch / Anefo, Nationaal Archief — CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons 1954 Julius Nyerere founded the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), a key step toward Tanzania's independence; the date is now marked as Saba Saba Day.
Sources: Obscure Histories ; Encyclopaedia Africana
PoliticsKenyans staged mass pro-democracy protests demanding multiparty elections, an event now commemorated annually as Saba Saba Day.
Sources: Daily Sabah ; JURIST
Politics
Unknown photographer (pre-1971) — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons Nigerian opposition leader Moshood Abiola died in prison, sparking riots that killed at least nineteen people in Lagos.
Sources: Amnesty International ; World Socialist Web Site ; ecoi.net (Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada)
Death