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Social Disorganisation in Uganda: Before, During, and After Amin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Aidan Southall
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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.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 1980 , pp. 627 - 656
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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page 639 note 1 See Southall, Aidan, ‘General Amin and the Coup: great man or historical inevitability?’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), XIII, 1, 03 1975, pp. 85–105.CrossRefGoogle Scholar