Firsts & Milestones
- The Death of Fela Kuti, Father of Afrobeat (Article)
- Jesse Owens's 100m Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Article)
- Virgil Abloh, the Ghanaian-American Who Redefined Global Fashion (Article)
- Nigeria's Independence Day, October 1, 1960 (Article)
- The 1930 Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I (Article)
- Tanganyika's Independence, December 9, 1961 (Article)
- Nigeria's First Coup: The January 1966 Uprising Led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (Article)
- The Death of Diego Maradona (Article)
- The Battle of Adwa: How Ethiopia Defeated Italy in 1896 (Article)
- The 1963 Togo Coup: Africa's First and the Killing of Sylvanus Olympio (Article)
- Africa's Mobile Phone Boom, By the Numbers (2013) (Article)
- Sibusiso Vilane: The First Black African to Conquer the Seven Summits and Three Poles (Article)
- Aliko Dangote and Folorunsho Alakija: Nigeria's Billionaire Firsts (Article)
- Haiti's 1804 Independence: The World's First Black Republic (Article)
- The Namib: Where the Atlantic Meets the World's Oldest Desert (Article)
- Kilimanjaro: Africa's Roof and the World's Tallest Free-Standing Mountain (Article)
- Kenya's Independence and the Road to Jamhuri Day (Article)
- Africa's Youth Boom and Its Aging Leaders (Article)
- Kenya's Supreme Court Annuls Kenyatta's 2017 Re-Election (Article)
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Africa's First Elected Female President (Article)
- Senegal's Unmatched Record of Coup-Free Governance in West Africa (Article)
- Nelson Mandela Walks Free: February 11, 1990 (Article)
- The Great Pyramid of Giza: The One Ancient Wonder Still Standing, and an Honorary Modern One Too (Article)
- Elizabeth Became Queen in a Kenyan Treehouse, Not London (Article)
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria: Divers Are Still Pulling Its Pieces Out of the Harbor (Article)
- Nigeria's 1914 Amalgamation: A Budget Fix That Created a Country (Article)
- Miriam Makeba's 1966 Grammy: A Protest Album Disguised as a Folk Record (Article)
- Zimbabwe's Hyperinflation: The First of the 21st Century, and the Economists Who Had to Reconstruct Its Real Numbers (Article)
- Lesotho's Cannabis Economy: A 16th-Century Legend and a 21st-Century Export Industry (Article)
- Gabriel Monjane, the Mozambican Who Became the World's Tallest Man (Article)
- Libya's Great Man-Made River, the World's Largest Irrigation Project (Article)
- Virunga, Africa's Oldest National Park, Born as a Colonial Science Reserve (Article)
- Lake Kariba, the Colonial Dam That Displaced 57,000 Tonga People (Article)
- Why Durban's Airport Carries the Zulu King's Name (Article)
- The 1926 Drive That Opened East Africa's Roads to the Motorcar (Article)
- The Lydenburg Heads: Southern Africa's Oldest Known Sculpture (Article)
- Nigeria's Population Explosion, From 16 Million to a Projected Global Top Three (Article)
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's First Day as the WTO's First African, First Woman Director-General (Article)
- Forbes' 2013 'Saddest Countries' List and Why Africa Dominated It (Article)
- Leila Lopes, Angola's First Miss Universe (Not Africa's First) (Article)
- Khaman Maluach's Rise From South Sudanese Refugee to NBA Draft Pick (Article)
- Nnewi, the Nigerian Town That Bred the Country's First Billionaire (Article)
- Senegal Becomes the First African Team to Beat England (Article)
- Abdulqawi Yusuf Becomes the World Court's First Somali President (Article)
- Kitili Mwendwa Became Kenya's First African Chief Justice at 39 (Article)
- George Weah Becomes Africa's Only World and European Footballer of the Year (Article)
- The Carlton Centre Was Africa's Tallest Building for 46 Years (Article)
- How Durban Overcame a Killer Sandbar to Become Southern Africa's Busiest Port (Article)
- Fourah Bay College: The School That Made Freetown 'the Athens of West Africa' (Article)
- Nigeria Recalculated Its Way to 'Africa's Largest Economy' in 2014 (Article)
- Victoria, Seychelles: One of the World's Smallest National Capitals (Article)
- Ivory Coast's First Coup: Robert Guéï Overthrows Henri Konan Bédié, 1999 (Article)