CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1936 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid activist and politician who campaigned for decades for her husband Nelson Mandela's release from prison, was born in Bizana, South Africa.
BirthOn this day — September 26 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1936 A Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashed shortly after takeoff in Lagos, killing 159 people, mostly military personnel.
Tragedy
Photo by Yaamboo — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2002 The overloaded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsized off the coast of the Gambia, killing more than 1,800 people in one of the worst maritime disasters in history.
Tragedy
Photo by Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1992 South African President F. W. de Klerk and ANC President Nelson Mandela signed the Record of Understanding, breaking a deadlock and paving the way for the resumption of negotiations to end apartheid.
Politics
Portrait by Carl Frederik von Breda — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1846 Thomas Clarkson, the English abolitionist whose decades of research and campaigning were instrumental in ending the British transatlantic slave trade, died.
Death