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| 1918 November 23 |
| | | Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of the German army in East Africa, surrenders after four stubborn years of resistance | |
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| 1919 June 28 |
| | | German East Africa is to be governed by Britain as Tanganyika, under a League of Nations mandate | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Young Kikuyu Association is formed in Kenya, to fight for African rights and the restoration of Kikuyu land | |
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| 1924 |
| | | The League of Nations grants Belgium a mandate to administer the former Germany colony of Ruanda-Urundi | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The regent Ras Tafari becomes emperor of Ethiopia and takes the name Haile Selassie | |
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| 1931 |
| | | On his first expedition to the Olduvai Gorge, Louis Leakey finds the oldest object now in the British Museum - the chopping tool from about 1.8 million years ago | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Hutus and Tutsis of Ruanda-Urundi are issued with racial identity cards by the Belgians | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Mussolini uses a disagreement over grazing rights as a pretext for an empire-building invasion of Ethiopia | |
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| 1936 |
| | | The Italian forces invading Ethiopia reach Addis Ababa, and Haile Selassie flees into exile | |
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