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Obote (Apollo) Milton. born 1924, Ugandan politician; prime minister of Uganda (1962--66) and president (1966--71; 1980--85). He was deposed by Amin in 1971 and remained in exile until 1980; deposed again in 1985 by the Acholi army How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Living in a country that had suffered under the Amin and Obote regimes, Watson saw the strain of the people, "disoriented by years of bad government. Ssengendo's own interest in the subject stems from living through two decades--from the late 1960s through the late 1980s--of social turmoil, marked by violent persecutions of the Baganda under the regimes of Apolo Milton Obote (independent Uganda's first prime minister), and that of Idi Amin Dada, both northerners. Obote believed that "nothing is more paradoxical than that these events [in Birmingham] should take place in the United States and at a time when that country is anxious to project its image before the world screen as . |
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