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

Black Roots Exposed! The Kingdom of Ghana.

“Ghana is the title given to their kings, but the name of the kingdom of Awkar. In this year 1067 [or 460 of the Islamic calendar], their king is Tunka Manin who came to the throne in 1063. He rules an enormous kingdom, and wields strong power”

This is an account of al-Bakri, an Arab chronicler through the information he had form the Andalusian traders. 

          The kingdom of Ghana should not be confused with the present Republic of Ghana, in fact, the kingdom was different from the present Ghana in terms of ethnicity and territory. It was situated some 400km northeast of the present Ghana. In its territory, was now north Senegal and south Mauritania.

Further west was the state of Tukrur in Senegal valley. A coastal route leading to Morocco via Sjilmasa opened it to the north.

    Roots.

         The origins of Ghana up to now remain a mystery to everyone. When it came to existence