Apollo milton obote biography of mahatma gandhi
This paper delves into the development of architectural education in East Africa—current-day Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda—and the underlying socio-cultural....
Obote was a spare-bodied man, and walked almost shyly, with his hands clasped together in the fashion of Mahatma Gandhi.
Milton Obote
Ugandan prime minister and president (1925–2005)
Apollo Milton Obote (28 December 1925 – 10 October 2005) was a Ugandan politician who served as the second prime minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and the second president of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and later from 1980 to 1985.
A Lango, Obote studied at the Busoga College and Makerere University. In 1956, he joined the Uganda National Congress (UNC) and later split away by founding the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) in 1960. After Uganda gained independence from British colonial rule in 1962, Obote was sworn in as prime minister in a coalition with the Kabaka Yekka, whose leader Mutesa II was named president.
Due to a rift with Mutesa over the 1964 Ugandan lost counties referendum and later getting implicated in a gold smuggling scandal, Obote overthrew him in 1966 and declared himself president, establishing a dictatorial regime with the UPC as the sole official party in 1969.
As president, Obote implemented