Social Disorganisation in Uganda: Before, During, and After Amin
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 18 (4) , 627-656
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00014774
Abstract
The defeat of Amin and the liberation of Uganda by Nyerere's Tanzania is the most significant African event of the last decade. With it Africa came of age, able to criticise itself, no longer determined to support the honour of corrupt rulers against the world simply because they are black. Amin's buffoonery at last grew tiresome with surfeit. He was a clown who lived his life of power, self-indulgence, and tyranny to the utterance, making himself and his country a total jest, so that all the world must recognise the basic absurdity and iniquity of post-uhuru military régimes in Africa.Keywords
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- General Amin and the Coup: Great Man or Historical Inevitability?The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1975