90 years from colonial mindset to invaluable repository of culture. Today in 1936, Angola’s first museum, the Dundo Museum, opened by Diamong, a diamond company, in the small mining town Dundo. Designed as an ethnological museum, its mission was “to gather and collect every characteristic object used by the indigenous races of the region.”

Born today. 1952: Roger Milla, Cameroonian football player and one of the first African football players to become a major star in international play. Named CAF’s African Footballer of the Year twice, in 1976 and 1990, he played for the Cameroon national team in three World Cups. 1957: Kasaloo Kyanga, Congolese musician and composer. An expert guitarist, he did most of his professional work in Tanzania, producing hits that were played internationally from the 1980s onward.