{"title":"Xavier Ogena","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-fighting-man-a-political-life-of-museveni-volume-i-c-1944-1986-paperback","title":"A Fighting Man: A Political Life of Museveni, Volume I, c.1944-1986 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst much ink has been spilt on \"Museveni's Uganda\", far too little ink has been spilt on the life of the country's eponymous leader, which is now in its eighth, eventful decade. The little information on Museveni's life that is in the public domain comes mostly from his memoirs, in which he is, in any case, understandably much more engaged in personal justification than an objective and disinterested essay. Hence this volume. This is the first, full, political biography of Museveni. This book also presents that increasingly uncommon commodity in \"Museveni's Uganda\" a balanced assessment of Museveni's abilities and activities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume of Xavier Ogena's political biography of President Museveni takes the reader from the birth of its subject in c.1944-through his formal education in Uganda and Tanzania, where he became considerably politically radicalised; his brief employment in a curious capacity in the Obote (First) President's Office; his dogged guerrilla struggle against the Amin military dictatorship; his changing fortunes in the post-Amin, transitional dispensation; his studied reluctance in running, if unsuccessfully, for the Presidency in the rigged general elections of December 1980; and his rebellion against the Obote (Second) and Okello regimes-to his triumphant accession to power in the dry season of 1985-86. This book is an essential reading for anyone who is interested in the history and politics of post-colonial Uganda, even Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67964403220703,"sku":"9789970675005","price":61.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zO_NaLcoZ99789970675005.webp?v=1791715862"},{"product_id":"idi-amin-a-study-in-tyranny-paperback","title":"Idi Amin: A Study in Tyranny - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe myth and reality of Idi Amin have become so entangled that it is often particularly difficult to ascertain with any degree of certainty what is one or the other. This is because, among other things, his character and regime lend themselves so perfectly to fictionalisation (as in, for instance, Rise and Fall of Amin, and The Last King of Scotland) and propaganda that what is, for narrative, or dramatic, or political purposes, a variation on, or an extrapolation from a known fact about, Amin or his regime, even a complete fabrication has come to be accepted by many as historical reality, even more so in the absence of authoritative works on the subject. This book dispassionately disentangles the myth from the reality of Idi Amin and his regime while making an interdisciplinary sense of his political-military biography and trajectory from cook to President and beyond. This book takes the reader from Amin's birth between 1923 and 1928, through his humble beginnings in the British colonial regiment, King's African Rifles (KAR); his rapid rise through the ranks of successively the KAR and Uganda Army to become Army Commander; his Israeli-sponsored coup against his former mentor, Apollo Milton Obote; his one-man rule of Uganda, which was characterised by unprecedented mass killings and the general collapse of the socioeconomic infrastructure; his overthrow by combined Tanzanian and Ugandan-exiles forces; and his flight into exile in Saudi Arabia, where he died in 2003. This book will appeal to readers desirous of knowing the true nature of the Amin regime and how it was possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67967288049887,"sku":"9789913979108","price":57.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HMHGvpQ-Lj9789913979108.webp?v=1791737607"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/xavier-ogena.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}