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Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was a Nigerian politician, deputy leader of the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC), and the first federal...

Senegal has just elected its youngest president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the opposition leader who led the race in Senegal's presidential...

Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania’s second president who has died aged 98, pushed through tough economic and political reforms that transformed the...

Political activist and Tanzanian politician Bibi Titi Mohammed was born in June 1926 in Dar es Salaam, the capital city...

After a short stint working as an “untrained teacher,” between 1947 and 1949, Kimathi joined the Kenya African Union (KAU),...

Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He was one of the last of...

An experienced politician with decades of activism under his belt, Zimbabwe's 45-year-old opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is still known to...

The 62-year-old general, Abdourahamane Tchiani is from Niger’s western region of Tillaberi, close to the border with Mali. He studied...

Kenya has been in a state of mourning since Friday (April 22, 2022) when president Uhuru Kenyatta announced the death...

Tanzania has been marking 100 years since the birth of its founding father, the late Julius Nyerere. Events have been...