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| 1984 |
| | | The name of Upper Volta is changed to Burkina Faso, meaning 'land of incorruptible people' | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The aged president, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, wins the Ivory Coast's first democratic elections | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Expelled from his own country, Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden moves to Sudan where he continues to develop al-Qaeda | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A Tuareg uprising in Mali results in some 120,000 refugees fleeing the country | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The incumbent president, Mathieu Kérékou, loses in Benin's first democratic election | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The Revolutionary United Front, led by Foday Sankoh, attacks Sierra Leone from bases in Liberia | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Guinea's first democratic election is won by the incumbent president, Lansana Conté | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Ken Saro-Wiwa, playwright and pro-democracy campaigner in Nigeria, is among a group hanged by the ruling junta | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Jerry Rawlings has a convincing electoral victory after seventeen years in power in Ghana | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed secretary-general of the United Nations, becoming the first black African in the post | |
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