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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 Suk |
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. |