Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1817 Paul Cuffe, the free-born Black merchant sea captain and "Back to Africa" pioneer who funded a voyage settling free African Americans in Sierra Leone, died in Westport, Massachusetts.
DeathOn this day — September 7 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
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Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1885 Alain Locke, philosopher and the first Black Rhodes Scholar, who became known as the intellectual architect of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Philadelphia.
Birth
Photo by Benny Gool — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1986 Desmond Tutu was installed as Archbishop of Cape Town, becoming the first Black person to lead South Africa's Anglican Church.
Culture
Map by German2000 — CC0, Wikimedia Commons 2005 Egypt held its first-ever multi-party presidential election, with incumbent Hosni Mubarak winning a fifth term after decades of single-candidate referendums.
Politics
Photo by Frank Hall — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, the longtime dictator who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) for over three decades, died in exile in Morocco.
Death
Photo by Chris Peus — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1935 Abdou Diouf, who later served as Senegal's second president for 19 years and as Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, was born in Louga, French West Africa.
Birth