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On 21 April 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrived in Jamaica
In the late 1960s Tanzania experimented with a new form of socialism called Ujamaa.
Between 1967 and 1970 there was a civil war in Nigeria over the formation of Biafra.
The leader of Mozambique's fight against colonial rule remembered by his daughter
In 1969 the first President of Uganda, Edward Mutesa, died in exile in London.
In 1972 Burundi鈥檚 Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising
In the summer of 1972 the Ugandan leader Idi Amin expelled his country's Asian community
The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.
Dr Henry Chakava made it his life's mission to publish in African languages.
In the 1970s Ethiopia's military regime launched a brutal campaign of repression
Millions of Egyptians mourned the death of the legendary singer in 1975
In November 1975 a huge crowd of Moroccans marched into a Spanish colony in the desert
In July 1976 four foreign mercenaries were executed for their part in Angola's civil war.
Schoolchildren protest against Afrikaans as the language of instruction in South Africa
The brutal death in custody of the anti-Apartheid activist in September 1977.
The authorities said he'd starved himself to death, but he died from head injuries
In 1977 Somalia invaded Ethiopia in an attempt to take control of disputed territory.
The Nigerian military stormed the musician's compound in Lagos, Kalakuta Republic
It is 35 years since the South African newspaper editor was forced into exile.
At Christmas 1979 hundreds of Namibian children were taken to East Germany
The story of a 1980 Kenyan pop song which became an unlikely global hit.
In April 1980, Robert Mugabe became the first prime minister of Zimbabwe
In October 1981 the President of Egypt was shot at a military parade.
The parcel bomb attack that killed anti-apartheid activist Ruth First in 1982.
