Share what you know about the year you were born.
Nationally
President Dr. Apollo Milton Obote, was the President of Uganda for his first term in office, which ended prematurely in 1971 by military coup. I was too young to understand what was going on then.
But now, as an adult in the Uganda of today, I kind of fully understand how so appropriate for Uganda, that the year 1968 is characterized globally as a year of political unrest.
On a positive note, it is the year when Uganda won its first medals ever, a silver and bronze, at the “Summer Olympics”. Both medals were won in boxing – one by Leo Rwabogo and Eridad Mukwanga.
“Uganda at the 1968 Olympics.”
On the Africa continent
In Senegal, students were angry at the government and its handling of the economy and spiraling lifestyle conditions.”
It is also the year in which African nations gained independence!
Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) became a constitutional monarchy after it gained independence from Britain.
Mauritius became an independent state after it gained independence from Britain.
Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain.
Validating the characterization of it as a year of political unrest and social change, at least so on the African continent.
Globally
April 4th, 1968 is the day civil rights activist and baptist minister Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated.
Assassination of Martin Luther King Junior
An event that highly indicates that 1968 must have truly been a year of political unrest and social change in the United States of America.
I cannot help but imagine that some of the things happening today bear similarity with the things that led to the assassination of Dr. King; making his “I have a dream” speech event the more relevant today.
Did not know most of this before, but the daily writing prompt inspired me to find out. I Googled, “major events in 1968 in Uganda, in Africa and in the world.” And I learnt.
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