http://africanhistory.about.com/ African History http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/12/1943-12-may-world-war-ii-arnim-surrenders.htm At 11:15 am Giovanni Messe, promoted to Field Marshal of the Italian First Army, is authorized to capitulate by Mussolini: "As the aims of your resistance can be considered achieved,... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/12/1943-12-may-world-war-ii-arnim-surrenders.htm 2008-05-12T00:10:00Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/10/the-events-of-10-may-in-african-history.htm One of the most significant things to have happened on the 10th of May in African history was the inauguration in 1994 of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa,... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/10/the-events-of-10-may-in-african-history.htm 2008-05-10T00:20:13Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/10/10-may-1904-death-of-henry-morton-stanley.htm Born John Rowlands in Denbigh, Wales, on 28 January 1841, Henry Morton Stanley was the journalist and explorer for the New York Herald famous for his expedition to Africa to... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/10/10-may-1904-death-of-henry-morton-stanley.htm 2008-05-10T00:10:38Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/08/8-may-1979-recommendations-of-the-riekert-commission-of-south-africa-are-published.htm The Riekert Commission was appointed in the 1970s to investigate the employment conditions of blacks in South Africa. The commission's final report published in 1979 recommended that those blacks already... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/08/8-may-1979-recommendations-of-the-riekert-commission-of-south-africa-are-published.htm 2008-05-08T00:10:33Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/07/7-may-german-collapse-in-north-africa.htm As a result of Operation STRIKE, which started at 3:00 am the previous morning, General Sir Harold Alexander's 18th Army Group capture Bizerte and Tunis. The intense artillery barrage in... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/07/7-may-german-collapse-in-north-africa.htm 2008-05-07T00:10:41Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/06/1943-6-may-world-war-ii-operation-strike.htm The last Allied offensive in North Africa, Operation STRIKE, begins at 3:00 am with an intense artillery barrage in the Medjerda valley. (The barrage is five times the density... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/06/1943-6-may-world-war-ii-operation-strike.htm 2008-05-06T00:10:00Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/05/5-may-1941-ethiopia-regains-its-independence.htm Exactly five years after Addis Ababa fell to Mussolini's troops, Emperor Haile Selassie was reinstalled on the Ethiopian throne. He reentered the city through streets lined with black and white... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/05/5-may-1941-ethiopia-regains-its-independence.htm 2008-05-05T00:10:22Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/04/4-may-1990-the-groote-schuur-minute.htm At the conclusion (4 May 1990) of a meeting between the South African government and the recently unbanned African National Congress, ANC, at the presidential residence in Cape Town, both... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/04/4-may-1990-the-groote-schuur-minute.htm 2008-05-04T00:10:04Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/01/dvd-review-shooting-dogs.htm This is a powerful film about the Rwandan Genocide, although curiously set around the experiences of two white people: a priest, Father Christopher (played by John Hurt), and a school... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/01/dvd-review-shooting-dogs.htm 2008-05-01T00:10:42Z http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/30/adinkra-symbology.htm Adinkra is a cloth produced in Ghana and Cτte d'Ivoire which has traditional Akan symbols stamped upon it - the symbols represent proverbs, historical events, particular attitudes, or philosophical concepts.... http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/30/adinkra-symbology.htm 2008-04-30T00:10:02Z