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| 1926 |
| | | The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, founds the Muslim Brotherhood – to campaign for a society based on the Qu'ran with the sharia as its legal system | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The regent Ras Tafari becomes emperor of Ethiopia and takes the name Haile Selassie | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth | |
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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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| 1934 |
| | | Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general | |
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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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| c. 1935 |
| | | A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition | |
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