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Title:Exile Politics and Resistance to Dictatorship: The Ugandan Anti-Amin Organizations in Zambia, 1972-1979
Author:Nyeko, BalamISNI
Year:1997
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:96
Issue:382
Period:January
Pages:95-108
Language:English
Geographic terms:Uganda
Zambia
Subjects:rebellions
exile
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/723752
Abstract:This article examines the part played in the anti-Amin resistance movement by the short-lived Ugandan exile organization based in Zambia known as the Uganda Liberation Group (Z) - ULG(Z) - and its equally small rival, the Uganda National Movement (UNM), also located in Zambia, during the late 1970s. Both were ultimately absorbed into the larger Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), the umbrella body formed in Moshi, Tanzania, in March 1979. The article suggests that the majority of Ugandans who were forced into exile by the Amin regime's excesses were professionals with hardly any political experience or ambitions. There were, however, among them a sizable number of individuals whose previous careers had brought them into close contact with politicians of the pre-Amin era in Uganda. They took it upon themselves to organize the Ugandan exile population into groups that could provide rallying points for the anti-Amin resistance as well as a springboard for their own capture of political power in the country subsequently. Notes, ref., sum.
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