Biography: Chief Albert Luthuli (1898 – 21 July 1967).

"I have joined my people in the new spirit that moves them today, the spirit that revolts openly and broadly against injustice."

Early life.

Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was born in around the year 1898 to a Seventh day Adventist missionary, in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, (present Zimbabwe). He attended a missionary school in his ancestral town of Groutville, Natal. Luthuli also trained as a teacher at Edendale, near Pietermaritzburg. He also attended Adam’s College where was part of the staff until 1935.

This Week In History: Boer war begins in South Africa, Obote dies, Ingabire is arrested,

This week, 11th - 17th October is memorable in Africa. Struggles for power, deaths of nationalists, some arrests among many other events as we will see.

Without wasting time, lets take a look at the memorable events in Africa  here on The African Social History Blog.

Boer war begins in South Africa.
On this day in 1899, the Boers also called Afrikaners, of Dutch descent went to war with the British. This was after they had captured the Dutch cape colony in 1806 amid the Napoleonic

The Tales of The ancient Kingdom of Kanem

Kanem was situated northeast of Lake Chad. The early origins of the kingdom are believed to date as far as the seventh-century AD with the settlement of the Zaghawa people. The Sefawa dynasty replaced the Zaghawa in the early eleventh-century.

        Njimi was thought to be the capital of Kanem, with a centralized form of governance. However, no one seems to know exactly where Njimi was located.

Abu ‘l-Fida, a thirteenth-century politician and scholar from Syria quoted Ibn Said’s

This week in History Exclusive; 9 October 1962, Uganda attains Her Independence. (Part one)

On the 9^th day of this month, Uganda will be celebrating her 49^th independence anniversary, with this; I will bring you a Special Exclusive of This week in History, covering Uganda’s encounter with alien rule and the run up to independence.

Uganda and Imperialism.

The crafty Europeans after the loss of colonies in the Americas needed alternative colonies to supply their finished produce, get raw materials and settle their unemployed population, which had threatened a revolution. Steads, a British journalist quoted his friend Cecil Rhodes, a

This Week in History; Nigeria, Kingdom of Lesotho and Guinea archive Independance, Nadine Gordimer wins Nobel and Many Others.

This week 1st -7th, is incredible in Africa as far as History is concerned. Here at BRT, we have started a feature called This Week In History, the purpose is to highlight the important elements in Africa in the past days, of this week.

Independence For Africa.

On the first day of October, 1960, Nigeria achieved independence from the colonial masters - the British with Namdi Azikiwe as Governor General. Later, in 1962 0n the