President Obote, a leader who was popular with both Kaunda and President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania because of his verbal commitment to socialism and his authorship of “The Common Man’s Charter,” was ...

Milton Obote, Uganda’s first prime minister after independence, who led regimes known for corruption and brutality, died Monday in South Africa. He was 80. Obote, who was overthrown by the equally ...

Thirty-one years ago, this week there were big celebrations in Buganda. It is when Ronald Mutebi was crowned 39th Kabaka on July 31, 1993 and his kingdom was reborn. Also, this week, it was 39 years ...

MILTON OBOTE, the former president of Uganda who died last Monday aged 80, led his country to independence from Britain in 1962, then laid the foundations for what was to become, under Idi Amin, one ...

Having allied with the pro-monarchist and federalist Buganda-dominated Kabaka Yekka (King Only) Buganda-dominated party, Milton Obote’s Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) had cobbled together a majority, ...

Some say he used his tongue to get to power; perhaps the reason Milton Obote was one of the civilians to take power in a coup in Africa. While writing his obituary, the Guardian described Obote as one ...

Today, October 13, in 2007, the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) chose Mbale District to host the second memorial of its founding president, Apollo Milton Obote. Mr Andrew Nyote, then UPC Bugisu ...

Milton Obote was one of the last of the founding fathers of African independence and twice became Uganda's president. He was appointed Uganda's first prime minister when the country became independent ...