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RARE clip of scenes outside the Pretoria courthouse the day Mandela & co were sentenced to life imprisonment; 12 June, 1964.

Mama Winnie was ever present all through the trial.

When the verdict was read the crowd raised their fists chanting "amandla nga weto" (strength is ours)

Africans didn't give up their land to the colonialists without a fight.

Check out these 19th century UK newspaper reports (1838 - Zulus, Ghana) (1892 - Zanzibar, Dahomey—now in Benin Republic).

Ancient Ethiopian healing scrolls believed to eliminate illness by purging evil spirits and demons from a sick person.

Part of a larger healing ritual, these medicinal scrolls were also hung in homes facing the door to scare away evil spirits trying to get in.

Here's Gen. Idi Amin of Uganda visiting the castles and palaces of Edinburgh, Scotland, on July, 1972 during his UK visit, his first outside Uganda post the 1971 coup.

The history and impressions these sites left on him influenced him to later declare himself "King of Scotland".

Africa's coronavirus update, 25 March, 2020 - 3:30 pm CAT:

Countries - 46
COVID-19 cases - 2,475
Deaths - 64
Recoveries - 203

(@AfricaCDC)

The British rage over the King of Dahomey (today's Republic of Benin) in 1876 for defying them. They term the man's fierce resistance to colonialism as an insult to the British crown.

Yet Dahomey's women warriors (Amazons) resisted till 1894, one of Africa's last Kingdom to fall

A UN tribute to the late, great Robert Sobukwe, founder of the Pan-African Congress, who organised multiple protests, including the one that led to the Sharpeville massacre.

A teacher, editor of the Africanist and proponent of "Africa for Africans", he was jailed for 9 years...

GRAPHIC: A live coverage of the March 21st, 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, where apartheid South African Police killed 69 Africans and injured 182 others for protesting pass laws—requiring African persons over 16 years old to mandatorily carry passbooks to access the cities.

Isabel Dos Santos was Africa's former richest woman. The billionaire is the daughter of Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled oil-rich Angola for almost 40 years until he stood down in 2017.

She is being accused of amassing wealth from state coffers when her father ruled.

Happy independence to all Ghanaians as they celebrate her emancipation from colonial rule on this day in 1957, paving the way for sub-Saharan Africa to follow suit!

Here's Dr Kwame Nkrumah making sure the world knew Ghana was to handle her affairs