Zomba

City · c. 1967 CE · in Sub-Saharan Africa

Capital of Malawi (1967–1975).

Singapore (1965 CE): Capital of Republic of Singapore (1967–today).
Gaborone (1965 CE): Capital of Republic of Botswana (1967–today).
Lobamba (c. 1969 CE): Capital of Eswatini (1969–today).
Aden (c. 1969 CE): Capital of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1969–1989), Republic of Yemen (1990–1990).
Belmopan (1970 CE): Capital of Belize (1983–today).
Putrajaya (c. 1963 CE): Capital of Malaysia (1963–today).
Zanzibar City (c. 1963 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Zanzibar (1963–1964).
Kampala (c. 1963 CE): Capital of Republic of Uganda (1963–today).
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (c. 1972 CE): Capital of Sri Lanka (1972–today).
Niamey (c. 1961 CE): Capital of Republic of the Niger (1961–today).

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Nelson Mandela (1918 CE – 2013 CE): Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years who became South Africa's first Black president in 1994 and shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
Soweto uprising (1976 CE): Protests by Black schoolchildren against Afrikaans-medium instruction, beginning on 16 June 1976, were met with police gunfire that killed at least 176 people.
1994 South African general election (1994 CE): South Africa's first election with universal suffrage, held in April 1994, which ended apartheid and brought Nelson Mandela to the presidency.
Sharpeville massacre (1960 CE): South African police opened fire on a crowd protesting pass laws on 21 March 1960, killing 69 people; the ANC and PAC were banned soon after.
Julius Nyerere (1922 CE – 1999 CE): Leader of Tanganyika's independence movement and first president of Tanzania, known for his policy of Ujamaa socialism.
Olduvai Gorge hominin finds (1959 CE): Mary Leakey's 1959 discovery of the Paranthropus boisei skull at Olduvai Gorge, followed by Homo habilis fossils, made the gorge central to the study of human origins.
Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979 CE): Guerrilla war against Rhodesia's white minority government, which led to majority rule and the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980.
Mozambican Civil War (1977–1992 CE): Civil war between Mozambique's FRELIMO government and RENAMO rebels, backed by Rhodesia and South Africa, that killed around a million people.