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| 1967 |
| | | South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, in Cape Town, transplants the heart of a young woman into a 55-year-old grocer, Louis Washkansky | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president | |
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| 1968 |
| | | The United Nations, with the approval of Britain as the colonial power, imposes economic sanctions on Rhodesia | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Peter Nzube finds the oldest skull yet discovered in the Olduvai Gorge and names the specimen Twiggy, after the British fashion model of the time | |
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| 1969 |
| | | At a congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Idris I, king of Libya, is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Muammar al-Gaddafi | |
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| c. 1969 |
| | | Paintings discovered on stone slabs in a cave in Namibia are dated to about 28,000 years ago | |
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| 1970 |
| | | The breakaway province of Biafra surrenders after three years of devastating civil war in Nigeria | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Nasser dies of a sudden heart attack and is succeeded as Egypt's president by Anwar el-Sadat | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Idi Amin leads a successful coup against the president of Uganda, Milton Obote | |
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