NATIONAL MOVEMENTS AND THE NEW STATES IN AFRICA
Preface
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN NATIONALISM
CHAPTER 2: THE ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR
CHAPTER 3: THE IMPACT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR ON AFRICA
CHAPTER FOUR:THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION
CHAPTER FIVE:THE GHANAIAN REVOLUTION
CHAPTER SIX:THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: UNITY OR BALKANIZATION
CHAPTER SEVEN:PAN AFRICANISM
CHAPTER NINE:NEO-COLONIALISM
CHAPTER TEN:AFRICAN POLITICAL PARTIES: THEIR ROLE IN THE REGAINING OF INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER ELEVEN:NATIONALISM IN NIGERIA
CHAPTER TWELVE: NATIONALISM IN CONGO
CHAPTER THIRTEEN:NATIONALISM IN TANGANYIKA
CHAPTER FOURTEEN:NATIONALISM IN KENYA: THE DEFEAT OF REGIONALISM
CHAPTER FIFTEEN:MAU- MAU IN KENYA (1952-1956)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN:THE ALGERIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:THE ARMED STRUGGLE: THE 1960S AND 1970S
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN MOZAMBIQUE
CHAPTER NINETEEN:THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN ZIMBABWE
CHAPTER TWENTY:THE POLISARIO WAR IN WESTERN SAHARA
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE:THE LIBERATION WAR IN NAMIBIA
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO:AFRIKANER AND AFRICAN NATIONALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE:NATIONALISM IN UGANDA
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR:UGANDA NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (UNLF) (1979-1980)
Introduction
The Obote II Government (1980-1985)
Reasons for the fall of Obote.
Okello's military council ( JULY 1985 JANUARY 1986)
Reasons for the fall of Okello's regime.
The National Resistance Movement (NRM)
NRM Ten Point Programme
Reasons for the success of the bush war
Developments under the NRM Government
The Econmomic and Social achievements
Weaknesses of the NRM Government
Problems Uganda has faced since Independence
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE:PROBLEMS OF DISUNITY: CIVIL WAR IN SUDAN
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX:THE ERITREAN SECESSION WAR FROM 1961-1993
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX:POLITICAL INSTABILITIES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA.
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN:SECESSIONISM IN ZAIRE, 1960-
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT:THE NIGERIAN CIVIL/ SECESSION WAR, 1967-70
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE:THE CIVIL WAR IN CHAD FROM 1965-1982
CHAPTER THIRTY:THE ANGOLAN CIVIL WAR, 1975-6
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE:MOZAMBICAN CIVIL WAR 1977-1994
CHAPTER THIRTY TWO:THE RWANDA REVOLUTION- 1959-1994
CHAPTER THIRTY THREE:THE ZANZIBAR REVOLUTION OF 1964
CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR:MILITARY COUP D'ETATS
CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE:THE LIBYAN REVOLUTION- 1969
CHAPTER THIRTY SIX:THE ONE-PARTY SYSTEM
CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN:MULTIPARTY SYSTEM
CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT:NATIONAL UNITY AND SOCIALISM
CHAPTER THIRTY NINE:AFRICAN CULTURE
CHAPTER FOURTY:REGIONAL AFRICAN ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
CHAPTER FOURTY ONE:POPULATION EXPLOSION IN AFRICA
CHAPTER FOURTY TWO:WARS BETWEEN INDEPENDENT AFRICAN STATES
CHAPTER FOURTY THREE:NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT (NAM)
CHAPTER FOURTY FOUR:MAJOR PROBLEMS OF AFRICA
CHAPTER FOURTY FIVE:THE BEST TECHNIQUES TO PASSING A' LEVEL HISTORY PAPER 1
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Obote came to power for the second time after winning the 1980 General elections with 74 seats. Although UPC is believed to have rigged the election, Obote was sworn as president on 12th December 1980. He made history as the first civilian president in African to have regained power through the ballot after being removed through the bullet.


The Democratic Party headed by Dr. Paul Semogerere formed the opposition and the shadow cabinet in the national assembly. Semogerere had earlier called for fresh elections because he was unsatisfied with the results.

 

UPM led by Yoweri Museveni got only one seat through Crispus Kiyonga. The rest including Museveni himself lost in their constituencies. Due to the rigging of elections, Museveni together with other 27 people went to the bush to wage war against Obote's government.

 

Obote appointed Paulo Muwanga as Vice President and Minister of Defence, Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister, Prof. Isaac Newton Ojok Minister of Education, Luwuriza Kirunda as minister of Internal Affairs and many others.

 

Obote divided the army along tribal lines by creating different units such as special force, dominated by the Iteso, the UNLA dominated by the Langi and Acholi, the weakened Ugandan police, the National Security Agency (NASA) and the Presidential Squad. All these forces were spying on each other. The Langi were highly favoured while the army tortured the Acholi.

 

 

Barely two months in office Obote's government was confronted with a guerilla war mounted by the NRM and its armed wing the NRA, several other groups in Buganda and West Nile formed their armed organizations. What followed was a bloody confrontation characterized by indiscriminate massacres and destruction that claimed many lives particularly in the Luwero triangle and other districts of Mukono, Mubende and Mpigi as well as the West Nile region.

National Movements and New States in Africa