A religious riot that will be remembered as Yamsé Ghoon breaks out in Port Louis, British Mauritius, as Indian Muslims celebrate the religious holiday the Mourning of Muharram with a traditional parade around the town. While they carry large Ta’eizh shrines, they are attacked by Creole men, who were formerly enslaved on the island. Some deaths result in a conflict rooted in ethnicity and politics.

Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness is published in England. Set in the Belgian Congo, the book cements the concept of “darkest Africa” in the Western imagination, associating Africa with darkness and using darkness as a metaphor for all that is evil, primitive and impenetrable.

Germany's forces in Southern Africa, unaware that World War I ended two days ago, capture the town of Kasama, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), which the British have abandoned. Tomorrow (14 November), German commander Paul Lettow-Vorbeck will receive word of the war’s end. He will march his troops to Abercom (Mbala) and surrenders to the British on 25 November.

Anti-British riots in Egypt spark the beginning of a new pro-Independence revolution. Government responds with force, including live ammunition against rioters, killing over 100 Egyptians. The uprising will expand nationwide by January 1936.

The first edition of Transition magazine is published, in Kampala, Uganda, by Rajat Neogy, with the manifesto “to provide an intelligent and creative backdrop to the East African scene." Neogy will be jailed in 1968 for an article critical of President Milton Obete’s plan to change the Ugandan constitution. An influential pan-African magazine by this time, Transition will shift publication to Ghana in 1971, close in 1976 due to finances, and be revised in 1991 by American historian Harry Louis Gates Jr. as “an international magazine about race and culture, with an emphasis on the African diaspora.”

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Spain bestows a noble title on Senegal’s President Léopold Sédar Senghor: Knight of the Collar.

Banana production in Uganda has doubled in the last two decades, from 280,000 tonnes in 1971 to 560,000 tonnes this year. Ugandans per capita eat 1kg of bananas daily, mostly cooked. Uganda and neighbouring Tanzania account for half of Africa’s banana exports to the world.

20 years after its Independence, Mozambique is accepted as a member of the Commonwealth. (pic: Maputo in 1995)

Morocco receives major investment from Japan's largest conglomerate Sumitomo, which will build a new cargo port near Tangier. This will be the largest port on the Mediterranean Sea as well as on the African continent. Sumitomo wants to make the port a primary export gateway to the European Union for Moroccan and African shipping.

While Zimbabwe’s overall economy is poor, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange is seen as a bargain by international investors. Their investments have made the ZSE the most profitable of all Africa’s 29 stock exchanges (which collectively represent trading of companies in 38 countries). In 2020, stock values are up by 47% for those investments made in U.S. dollars, and by 612% for investments using Zimbabwe currency.