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Title:Uganda Before, during and after Amin
Author:Adams, Bert N.
Year:1981
Periodical:Rural Africana
Volume:11
Period:Fall
Pages:15-25
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subjects:political conditions
1960-1969
1970-1979
Politics and Government
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
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Abstract:Uganda is one of those sub-Saharan African nations which incorporate within their boundaries societies formerly competitive with or antagonistic to each other. The Kenya-Uganda border separates peoples, such as the Pokot, who should be together, and the excolonial boundary brings together peoples who perhaps should be apart. Besides ethnic/boundary difficulties, Uganda lived through eight years of leadership by Idi Amin and is now trying to reconstruct an economy which has always thrived on agricultural self-sufficiency. This paper examines Uganda's recent history: Uganda before 1971 - Amin and the means of regime perpetuation (the symbolic leadership of President Amin and the army; populist propaganda; direct promises to the people; Amin's accessibility; Amin's control of media; force and control; 'the past government was one enemy'; the second enemy was the external; internal alien enemies) - Uganda after Amin. Notes, ref.
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