Imperial War Museums, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons The Second Boer War began in South Africa between the British Empire and the Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Sources: BBC History ; The Conversation
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Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
On this day: October 11 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Imperial War Museums, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Hundreds of Black Jamaicans marched on the courthouse in Morant Bay to protest injustice and poverty, beginning the Morant Bay Rebellion against British colonial rule.
Sources: University of Florida Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) ; Jamaica Information Service ; University of Miami Libraries
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CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1992 Cardi B, American rapper of Trinidadian and Dominican descent, was born in New York City.
Sources: GRAMMY.com (Recording Academy) ; Biography.com
CultureMichael Edwardes, South African-born British businessman who led carmaker British Leyland through its turbulent restructuring, was born.
Sources: The Guardian ; The Independent
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Photo by Richter Frank-Jurgen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1948 Peter Turkson, Ghanaian cardinal and senior Vatican official who has been widely discussed as a papal contender, was born.
Sources: Holy See Press Office (Vatican) ; America Magazine
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Photo by Urban TV Uganda, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1949 Henry Luke Orombi, Ugandan Anglican archbishop who led the Church of Uganda for nearly a decade, was born.
Sources: The Living Church ; New Vision (Uganda)
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Photo by Xiquet, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1969 Merieme Chadid, Moroccan-French astrophysicist who led international expeditions to install astronomical observatories in Antarctica, was born.
Sources: Études marocaines (Osire Glacier) ; L'Observateur du Maroc et de l'Afrique
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Photo by Erik van Leeuwen, GFDL, Wikimedia Commons 1985 Nesta Carter, Jamaican sprinter who won gold as part of Jamaica's world-record 4x100m relay team, was born.
Sources: World Athletics ; BBC Sport
BirthVoters in Nigeria's Western Region went to the polls in a regional election whose official results, giving Samuel Akintola's Nigerian National Democratic Party a large majority, were widely rejected as rigged. Violence spread across the region in the weeks that followed.
Sources: Palgrave Macmillan ; Internet Archive
Read the full article: Regions, Census and Elections: Nigeria's Road to Crisis, 1945-1965
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