Mahmood Mamdami places the Egyptian revolution and other protest movements in the historical context of popular struggle in Africa.
Posts Tagged ‘Uganda’
January 24th, 2011
Pushing the genocide button?
posted by Annie Hardison-MoodyIn a recent issue on Ethnography and Theology in the online multimedia journal Practical Matters, Dr. Todd Whitmore, of the University of Notre Dame, provides an analysis of a memo he received while conducting fieldwork among the Acholi people in Uganda. Whitmore’s analysis of the memo, which was dated from the 1980s and attributed to President Yoweri Museveni, finds that it implies “co-genocide on the Acholi people, first on the part of key figures of the NRM and then also on the part of the leadership of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).”
