Coups & Uprisings
- Tsietsi Mashinini and the June 16, 1976 Soweto Uprising (Article)
- How the CIA Watched Nigeria's 1966 Crisis Unfold in Real Time (Article)
- British Colonial Atrocities During Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising (1952-1960) (Article)
- Nigeria's First Coup: The January 1966 Uprising Led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (Article)
- Jerry Rawlings' Two Coups: 1979 and 1981 in Ghana (Article)
- The 1975 Coup That Overthrew Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon in Kampala (Article)
- Jaafar Nimeiry: Sudan's Coup-Prone Ruler, 1969-1985 (Article)
- The 2019 Sudanese Uprising and the Fall of Omar al-Bashir (Article)
- The 2011 NATO Intervention in Libya and the Killing of Muammar Gaddafi (Article)
- MKO Abiola: The 1993 Election He Won, and His Death in Custody in 1998 (Article)
- Kofi Busia's Government Overthrown in Ghana's 1972 Coup (Article)
- The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and the Fall of Haile Selassie (Article)
- Mobutu Sese Seko's Rise and 32-Year Rule Over Zaire (Article)
- Robert Mugabe: Liberation Leader, Zimbabwe's Founding Prime Minister, and Authoritarian Ruler (Article)
- The Derg's 1974 Overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie (Article)
- Yoweri Museveni: From Bush War Rebel to Uganda's Longest-Ruling President (Article)
- The 1982 Kenyan Air Force Coup Attempt Against Daniel arap Moi (Article)
- Jean-Bedel Bokassa: From Coup Leader to Self-Crowned Emperor (Article)
- Idi Amin's 1971 Coup Against Milton Obote (Article)
- Samuel Doe's 1980 Coup and the Killing of William Tolbert (Article)
- The CIA's 1986 Warning and the Coup That Killed Thomas Sankara (Article)
- Thomas Sankara's Final Months, Isolation, and October 15, 1987 (Article)
- The 1966 Coup That Overthrew Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah (Article)
- Yaa Asantewaa and the War of the Golden Stool (Article)
- The 1963 Togo Coup: Africa's First and the Killing of Sylvanus Olympio (Article)
- Francisco Macías Nguema and the Terror State of Equatorial Guinea (Article)
- How Teodoro Obiang Became Africa's Longest-Ruling Leader (Article)
- The 1997 'Phantom Coup': Abacha's Arrest of His Own Deputy, Oladipo Diya (Article)
- Murtala Muhammed's 1975 Coup Against Yakubu Gowon (Article)
- The 1966 Coup Against Nkrumah and the Disputed Question of US Involvement (Article)
- Zimbabwe's November 2017 Coup: How the Military Removed Robert Mugabe (Article)
- Buhari's 1983 Coup Ends Nigeria's Second Republic (Article)
- The 1964 Zanzibar Revolution: 600 Rebels, a Toppled Sultan, and a Death Toll Nobody Agrees On (Article)
- Idriss Deby's Death and the Dynastic Succession That Followed (Article)
- The Knife Attack on Mali's Assimi Goita During Eid Prayers (Article)
- Africa's Longest-Serving Heads of State (Article)
- Egypt's 1952 Free Officers Coup: The Fall of King Farouk (Article)
- Ivory Coast's First Coup: Robert Guéï Overthrows Henri Konan Bédié, 1999 (Article)
- The Zulu Kingdom: The Smallest Empire on This List, and the Most Famous (Article)
- Independence & Liberation (Era)
- Post-Independence & the Cold War (Era)