Uganda in the 1970s: a decade of paradoxes and ambiguities
@article{Hansen2013UgandaIT, title={Uganda in the 1970s: a decade of paradoxes and ambiguities}, author={Holger Bernt Hansen}, journal={Journal of Eastern African Studies}, year={2013}, volume={7}, pages={103 - 83} }
Abstract This article reprises the author's 1977 essay on ethnicity and military governance in Idi Amin's Uganda. In its rhetoric, the Amin regime was committed to the singular goal of allaying ethnic conflict. But in practice, the Amin years were marked by contractions and by often rapid shifts in policy. In the military the Amin years saw the elevation of the president's compatriots and the marginalization of Ganda and other competitors. In religious life, Amin encouraged the consolidation of…
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