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Essay / The Lango and Akoli people of Uganda - 723
UGANDA.Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. The capital of Uganda is Kampala. Uganda is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of Congo and to the south by Tanzania. The official language is English and Luganda is a central language, widely spoken throughout the country, and several other languages are also spoken, including Swahili. Uganda's natural resources are copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt and gold. The current president of Uganda is Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. THE LANGO PEOPLE. The Langi people live in north-central Uganda. The symbol of the Langi tribe is a rhinoceros. They speak the Lutuka language. The lango are agro-pastoralists who raise livestock and engage. in growing crops such as millet, beans, bananas and sweet potatoes. The Lango are the Nilo-Hamite people (a group of pastoralists from East Africa). THE ACHOLI PEOPLE. The Acholi live in northern Uganda and are called the gang. they raise cattle and sheep and their main food is millet. They originally migrated from South Sudan. The Acholi language is a Western Nilotic language known as Luo.IDI AMIN DADA.Idi Amin Dada was the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, before becoming president of Uganda he was deputy commander of the Ugandan army. He ruled Uganda for 8 terrible years. During his tenure, Amin won titles such as Black Hitler, Hangman Amin and Idi the Terrible. Idi Amin Dada is generally remembered only for the corpses that piled up during his time. Idi Amin Dada was uneducated and quite illiterate, he didn't even know how to write his name, he had no experience as a commander and yet he became an arm...... middle of paper...... s were banned.- No right to freedom of opinion. DESTRUCTION.- 250,000 to 500,000 people murdered.- 5,000 soldiers were killed.- 75,000 Asians were expelled. use Amin's method to achieve his goals.AMIN'S GENOCIDE METHODS.- During his campaign, he massacred hundreds and thousands of innocent people whom he did not like.- To sow terror among people, he had some of his ministers beheaded for small mistakes and he even kept some in a large refrigerator to warn those who opposed him. - Anyone caught smuggling was shot by his soldiers or tortured and then massacred. - He had his secret police to torture thousands of people and then arrest them. killed with sleds and many women and girls were raped .