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Marvin Garvey helped gain equal rights to Africans
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Britain recognized Egyptian independence under a constitution that protected British economic and strategic interests.
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Herbert Macauley founded the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), but it remained an elite party in Lagos that was ignored by the British .
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The United Negro Improvement Organization approved a $2 million plan for the "recolonization of Africa."
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The Liberian government issued an order forbidding the promotion of Garvey's ideas
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African students in Britain organized as the West African Students' Union (WASU) under the leadership of the Nigerian Ladipo Solanke (1884-1958) and the Sierra Leonean Bankole-Bright, and with "moral support" from Casely Hayford of the Gold Coast.
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Ras Tafari took the name Haile Selassie and became the constitutional monarch of Ethiopia.
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The Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) became the first mass political party in Africa.
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W.E.B. Du Bois broke with the NAACP and left the organization he helped to found
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The Wafd nationalist party led by Nahas Pasha ended its opposition by voting for the Anglo- Egyptian Treaty, a treaty signed to withdraw most of the UK troops from Egypt. In addition, hte United Kingdom has to train the Egyptian army and assist in its defence in case of war.
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African cocoa planters in the Gold Coast combined to resist monopolistic purchasing arrangements by nine British companies. They refused to sell any more cocoa (the great "cocao holdup") until the prices rose.
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Violent railroad strike in Senegal left six dead and dozens wounded.
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The KCA made a newspaper called the Muiguithania ("the reconciler") and the newspaper and Association were both banned.
