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

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