This Day in Africa
Today in African history
October 30
1974 — The Rumble in the Jungle
On October 30, 1974, under the Kinshasa night sky, Muhammad Ali stepped into the ring at the 20th of May Stadium to fight George Foreman for the heavyweight championship of the world, in the bout billed as the Rumble in the Jungle.…
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The book
This Day in Africa — the almanac
All 366 days, expanded for the page: empires and icons, coups and coronations, inventions, matches, judgments and journeys. Read one a day and walk the whole year inside African history.
About the bookHow it works
Each day's entry tells what happened on that date, then steps back to say why it still matters. Every day also lives as a short film of about sixty seconds in the This Day in Africa series on the Jollof Beats YouTube channel — read the page, then watch the minute. More about the project.