March 24

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Southern African Liberation Day, and click
here for one of the reasons why.


But it was also the day on which the PFA, the "Party of the African Federation" was established in West Africa, then ruled by the French, in 1959 - the achievement of poet-turned-politician Léopold Sédar Senghor, the same man who became the first head of state when Mali gained independence from France on June 20 1960.


The map shows the political geography of southern Africa in 1812, right at the start of European conquest.





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