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Events relating to africa
African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris
The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations
Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association
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
The regent Ras Tafari becomes emperor of Ethiopia and takes the name Haile Selassie
The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth
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
A deeply flawed experiment with African American syphilis patients is launched in Tuskegee, Alabama
The Hutus and Tutsis of Ruanda-Urundi are issued with racial identity cards by the Belgians
Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general
Mussolini uses a disagreement over grazing rights as a pretext for an empire-building invasion of Ethiopia
A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition
On the death of his father, Fuad I, the 16-year-old Farouk becomes king of Egypt
The Italian forces invading Ethiopia reach Addis Ababa, and Haile Selassie flees into exile
A rebellion by Spanish troops in Morocco is soon led by Francisco Franco and sparks the Spanish Civil War
At the Berlin Olympics, attended by Hitler, the African-American athlete Jesse Owens sets three new Olympic records and equals a fourth
Danish author Karen Blixen publishes her autobiographical novel Out of Africa
Jan Smuts defeats J.B.M. Hertzog in a vote on neutrality, and takes Hertzog's place as South African premier
Jan Smuts brings South Africa into the war in support of Britain
British warships bombard the French fleet in harbour at Mers-el-Kébir, in Algeria, killing more than 1250 sailors
Archibald Wavell's Allied divisions, after a rapid desert campaign, drive the Italians from the Libyan port of Tobruk
Adolf Hitler sends Erwin Rommel to save the Italians from looming disaster in north Africa
The Allies recover Ethiopia from the Italians and Haile Selassie returns to his throne in Addis Ababa
Churchill appoints Claude Auchinleck as British commander in North Africa and the Middle East
Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) is formed for unorthodox guerrilla operations in the north African desert
