Two years after the conclusion of the American Civil War that ended the enslavement of Africans, the first university entirely for the use of African-Americans is created by an act of the U.S. legislature. Located in Washington D.C., Howard University will see hundreds of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants earn university educations.

Great Britain and Portugal both claim ownership if Delagoa Bay on Africa’s southeastern coast north of Natal Province. To avoid conflict, they sign a protocol in Lisbon to present their cases to an arbitrator, and to abide by his decision. The President of France is chosen as arbitrator. He will ultimately decide in favour of Portugal, which will incorporate the bay into Portuguese Mozambique as well as its town of Lourenço Marques (Maputo).

The Trekboers  - Afrikaner farmers seeking to create a nation free of British control - after a difficult and dangerous journey from South Africa arrive at the Okavango River (Botswana). This is during a peaceful time between armed conflict in the 1850s between Afrikaners and the Tswana people who were resisting the white invasion and the colonial Scramble for Africa in the 1880s when the land of the Tswana will be a coveted prize for Britain's and Germany's colonial ambitions.

The Slavery Convention of 1926 to outlaw human enslavement in every country in the world is passed by the League of Nations. Going into effect in 1927, it will be revised in 1956 and continue to be signed by new countries. The last African country to do so is Mauritania, in 1986, although incidents of slavery will continue in Mauritania in 2023.

Comoros, administered by France as a province of Madagascar, falls under British rule as Britain conquers Vichy French forces in Madagascar. Comorians on the archipelago’s four main islands have no say in their governance, but they will not have to suffer military conflict in their country during World War II.

Poorly paid, denied the right to form unions, subjected to unsafe working conditions with no health benefits, some of South Africa’s black diamond miners resort to swallowing raw diamonds to sell to feed their families. Rather than raise wages, DeBeers and other diamond companies invest in expensive new x-ray technology to detect smuggled diamonds.

With the release of the September 1960 issue of Marvelman #341, the British version of Captain Marvel knocks out a white foreman before he can whip a bound African man. The image is startling because during the Golden Age of comic books from the 1930s through the 1950s, superheroes regularly beat up African “savages,” who were always portrayed as brutal, half-naked cannibals and killers.

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Senegal wins its first Olympics gold medal when Amadou Dia Ba (wearing green in pic) captures silver in the Men’s 400 metre hurdles at the Summer Olympic Games.

Glasgow University in Scotland calculates that it earned US$262 million by investing in the African slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. To make amends, the university launches a “reparations/justice programme.”

Windhoek expands its boundaries, and will eventually cover 5,133 square kilometres. The expansion will make Namibia’s capital the world's 3rd largest city in terms of area, after Tianjin, China and Istanbul, Turkey.