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Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1985–97
Ohio University Press, 1999 Cloth: 978-0-8214-1310-4 | Paper: 978-0-8214-1311-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8214-4570-9 Library of Congress Classification BL2480.A33B4413 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 299.69761
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the “Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.” With it she waged a war against perceived evil, not only an external enemy represented by the National Resistance Army of the government, but internal enemies in the form of “impure” soldiers, witches, and sorcerers. She came very close to her goal of overthrowing the government but was defeated and fled to Kenya. See other books on: Indigenous, Folk & Tribal | Religion and politics | Sociology of Religion | Uganda | Violence in Society See other titles from Ohio University Press |
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Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1985–97
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Ohio University Press, 1999
Cloth: 978-0-8214-1310-4
Paper: 978-0-8214-1311-1
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4570-9
Cloth: 978-0-8214-1310-4
Paper: 978-0-8214-1311-1
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4570-9
In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the “Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.” With it she waged a war against perceived evil, not only an external enemy represented by the National Resistance Army of the government, but internal enemies in the form of “impure” soldiers, witches, and sorcerers. She came very close to her goal of overthrowing the government but was defeated and fled to Kenya.
This book provides a unique view of Alice’s movement, based on interviews with its members and including their own writings, examining their perceptions of the threat of external and internal evil. It concludes with an account of the successor movements into which Alice’s forces fragmented and which still are active in the civil wars of the Sudan and Uganda.
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