Ohio University Press, 2000. — 224 p. In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the “Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.” With it she waged a war against perceived evil, not only an external enemy represented by the National Resistance Army of the government, but...
Ohio University Press, 2014. — 263 p. In Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women who survived the regime, as well as a wide range of primary sources, this book reveals how the violence of Amin’s militarism resulted in both...
Routledge, 2017. — 255 p. This book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the Rwenzururu movement in Western Uganda. The movement began in the 1960s in the Rwenzori region of Toro District, and was a protest by the minority Bakonzo and Baamba ethnic groups against their continued discrimination and incorporation in the Batoro-dominated kingdom-district. In the course...
Lawrence Hill Books, 2009. — 337 p. — ISBN 978–1-55652–799–9 “Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that has...
Athlone Press, 1974. — 116 p. Britain granted independence to Uganda in 1962, although elections leading to internal self-governance were held on 1 March 1961. Benedicto Kiwanuka of the Democratic Party became the first chief minister. Milton Obote was elected Prime Minister in April of 1962 and Uganda became a republic in October 1962, maintaining its Commonwealth membership....
Ohio University Press, 1998. — 302 p. — (Eastern African Studies). — ISBN: 0821412086, 9780821412084. Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This book assesses the question of whether the reality lives up to the image that has so impressed the...
Mcgill Queens University Press, 1994. — 375 p. — ISBN 0-7735-1218-7 This work examines the origins of the high levels of violence in Uganda since independence. It is a compilation and comparison of patterns and forms of violence under successive Ugandan regimes, and offers a systematic analysis of violence under the second Obote regime. Using a causal model of violence, Kasozi...
Fountain Publishers, 1997. — 600 р. For 6 years, Henry Kyemba was Idi Amin's principal private secretary and later Minister of Health in 1970's Uganda. If you want shivers sent up your spine, then this book should do the trick. The inside information and stories that Kyemba relays is quite appalling. And the insight we are provided into a clearly deranged individual's mind is...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 368 p. The first serious full-length biography of former Ugandan president Idi Amin, modern Africa’s most famous dictator. Idi Amin began his career in the British army in colonial Uganda, and worked his way up the ranks before seizing power in a British-backed coup in 1971. He built a violent and unstable dictatorship, ruthlessly eliminating...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 383 p. During the 1890s, the ‘scramble for Africa’ created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some twenty to thirty African kingdoms. In his magisterial new study, Anthony Low examines how and why the British were able to dominate these rulerships and establish a colonial government....
Heinemann Educational Books, 1983. — 116 p. This book provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the role of big business in Africa's agriculture. It exposes the past and present activities of foreign companies in the diversion of much of Africa's food potential to the cash crop demands of Europe. Most aspects of company activity are illustrated with examples and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 272 p. The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions. In this new analysis of the end of empire in Uganda, Spencer Mawby challenges these preconceptions by explaining...
Onyx Press, 1980. — 375 p. This book provides a rare opportunity for an inside view of the turbulent politics of Uganda. Professor Nabudere has been an active participant in the politics of that country for many years. The author's attempt to come to terms with the continuing crisis which faces Uganda takes him first to the precolonial societies whose inner contradictions...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1987. — 238 p. — ISBN 978-0-312-00046-2 How was the military dictatorship of Idi Amin possible? Was it inevitable? The author seeks the answers to these questions in the political and military history of Uganda from colonial times and finally considers the regimes which have followed Amin's dictatorship in Uganda, exploring the political role of the...
Scarecrow Press, 1995. — 584 p. Uganda has now joined the list of countries covered by Scarecrow Press' series of Historical Dictionaries of Africa. An introductory essay provides an overview of the geography, demography, and economy of one of Africa's most scenically beautiful and diverse countries. The historical section of the introduction outlines Uganda's chequered...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 430 p. — ISBN 978-1-107-06720-2 This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all...
The Radcliffe Press, 2009. — 241 p. List of Illustrations. Family Background. Malaya. Kenya Childhood. Preparatory School (Kenton College). Transition (King’s School, Canterbury). Starting a Career: Devonshire Course. Teso District. Long Leave. Ankole District. Refugees. Politics and Religion. Social Life and End of Tour. Conclusions. Guidance to ADCs on Changes to the...
Zed Books Ltd., 2018. — 409 p. — ISBN 978-1-78699-110-2 Those who want to better understand the dynamics of contemporary Uganda face a bifurcated scenario: two dif erent narratives persist at global and local levels that seem, taken together, hard to reconcile. One is of a Uganda emerging from years-long civil war in the late 1980s, and then within a few years becoming an...
Монархи и президенты Уганды. — М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1989. — 208 с. В книге даны исторические портреты африканских деятелей прошлого и последних десятилетий. На основе малоизвестных фактов рассказывается об угандийцах, стоявших в центре кульминационных моментов истории страны — от Мутесы I, просвещенного монарха в Межозерье середины прошлого века, до...
Монархи и президенты Уганды. — М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1989. — 208 с.: ил. — (Рассказы о странах Востока). — 5-02-016572-7 В книге даны исторические портреты африканских деятелей прошлого и последних десятилетий. На основе малоизвестных фактов рассказывается об угандийцах, стоявших в центре кульминационных моментов истории страны — от Мутесы I,...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 127 с. В книге исследуется генезис государственности в Буганде — одном из раннеклассовых доколониальных образований Восточной Африки. Анализируются социально-экономические предпосылки классообразования, уровень развития производи-тельных сил, а также процесс разложения родоплеменных институтов.
М.: Наука, 1982. — 152 с. В книге исследуется генезис государственности в Буганде - одном из раннеклассовых доколониальных образований Восточной Африки. Анализируются социально-экономические предпосылки классообразования, уровень развития производительных сил, а также процесс разложения родоплеменных институтов. Раннегосударственные образования изучены крайне неравномерно, и до...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 152 с. В книге исследуется генезис государственности в Буганде - одном из раннеклассовых доколониальных образований Восточной Африки. Анализируются социально-экономические предпосылки классообразования, уровень развития производительных сил, а также процесс разложения родоплеменных институтов. Раннегосударственные образования изучены крайне неравномерно, и до...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 153 с. В книге исследуется генезис государственности в Буганде - одном из раннеклассовых доколониальных образований Восточной Африки. Анализируются социально-экономические предпосылки классообразования, уровень развития производительных сил, а также процесс разложения родоплеменных институтов. Раннегосударственные образования изучены крайне неравномерно, и до...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 248 с. — (История стран Африки). Это первый в советской африканистике обобщающий труд по новой и новейшей истории Республики Уганда. Исследуется самостоятельное развитие народов страны в доколониальный период, вскрываются методы колониального господства и угнетения, применявшиеся английским империализмом. Анализируются формирование новых социальных сил -...
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