UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office — Open Government Licence, Wikimedia Commons 2007 Riots erupted in Mombasa, Kenya after Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of a disputed presidential election, triggering the 2007-08 Kenyan crisis.
PoliticsOn this day — December 27 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office — Open Government Licence, Wikimedia Commons 2007 
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1978 Houari Boumediene, the second President of Algeria who led the country for 13 years, died.
DeathLucas Mangope, who led South Africa's Bophuthatswana homeland for over a decade, was born.
Birth
Erik van Leeuwen — CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons 1986 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the Jamaican sprinter who became one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history, was born.
Birth
Dr. Avishai Teicher, PikiWiki Israel — CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons 2014 Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, the African-American religious leader who founded the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem community, died.
Death