Word: kampala
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...devious and tough simply to stay alive. He fights what he sees as the tyranny of his parents and the authoritarian rule of the priests at his school. For a while, he idolizes Amin's power and intransigence. But this feeling fades, and the stroll he takes through anarchic Kampala, his adopted urban home, just after the overthrow of Amin in 1979 becomes a harrowing hell. Precious few first novels are as phantasmagoric or as haunting as this...
...remote Kanungu. Using money provided by followers, who commonly sold their homes and possessions upon joining, and funds from groups and individuals overseas, Kibwetere built a small complex of houses, offices and a school. He recruited followers from nearby rural districts and from as far away as the capital, Kampala...
...bombings], we were informed that he is a Saudi from the province of Najd. The fact of the matter is that America, and in particular the CIA, wanted to cover up its failure in the aftermath of the events that took place in Riyadh, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Capetown, Kampala--and other places, God willing, in the future--by arresting any person who had participated in the Islamic jihad in Afghanistan. We pray to God to end the plight [of the arrested men], and we are confident they will be exonerated...
Museveni is unabashedly no democrat, at least by U.S. standards. When at age 41 he took Kampala, he had long been disillusioned with the divisive, sectarian politics of Uganda. Instead the country needed a system that discouraged tribal rivalry. He made his National Resistance Movement the sole legal political structure...
MARGUERITE MICHAELS, our peripatetic New York bureau chief, first met Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in 1989 when she was based in Nairobi, and knew even then that "he would one day be important beyond the borders of his country." Michaels has been to Kampala many times. On two return trips this year, her conviction hadn't changed, but the country had. The potholes were fewer, Kampala's skyline and night life were impressive, and the general air of shell shock was gone. "Here," she says, "is hope that is not short term...