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| 1965 |
| | | Mobutu stages his second coup in the Congo and this time takes power as president | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Jean-Bedel Bokassa takes power in a coup in the Central African Republic | |
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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 |
| | | 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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| 1971 |
| | | Idi Amin leads a successful coup against the president of Uganda, Milton Obote | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Mobutu gives the Congo a new name, Zaire, deriving from an African word for river | |
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| 1972 |
| | | In an orgy of ethnic slaughter in Burundi, Tutsis klll some 100,000 Hutus | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Winning power in a military coup, Juvenal Habyarimana begins a 21-year spell as dictator in Rwanda | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Donald Johanson and Tom Gray find an almost complete Australopithecus female skeleton at Hadar in Ethiopia, and nickname her Lucy after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds | |
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| 1974 |
| | | An uprising organized in Ethiopia by the Dergue results in the arrest of Haile Selassie and his murder a year later | |
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