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Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1985–97
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In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces. With it she waged a war against perceived evil, not only an external enemy represented by the National Resistance Army of the government, but internal enemies in the form of impure soldiers, witches, and sorcerers. She came very close to her goal of overthrowing the government but was defeated and fled to Kenya.

This book provides a unique view of Alices movement, based on interviews with its members and including their own writings, examining their perceptions of the threat of external and internal evil. It concludes with an account of the successor movements into which Alices forces fragmented and which still are active in the civil wars of the Sudan and Uganda.

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Alice Lakwena & the Holy Spirits

War in Northern Uganda Heike Behrend

* forthcoming

Alice Lakwena & the Holy Spirits

War in Northern Uganda 198597

HEIKE BEHREND

Translated by Mitch Cohen

James Currey
OXFORD

Fountain Publishers
KAMPALA

EAEP
NAIROBI

Ohio University Press
ATHENS

eBook edition published 2016

Ohio University Press
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James Currey
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1 2 3 4 5 03 02 01 00 99
Originally published as
Behrend, Heike: Alice und die Geister:
Krieg im Norden Uganda
Munich: Trickster, 1993
(Uroboros; Vol. 4)

Translated with the financial support of Inter Nationes

ISBN 9970-02-197-4 (Fountain Publishers Paper)

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Behrend, Heike

Alive & the spirits : war in northern Uganda, 1985-97.
(Eastern African Studies)

1. Acoli (African people) - Religion 2. Religion and politics - Uganda 3. Spiritualism - Uganda. 4. Uganda - History - 1979 - I. Title

299.69761

ISBN 0-85255-248-3 (James Currey Cloth)
ISBN 0-85255-247-5 (James Currey Paper)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress

ISBN 0-8214-1310-4 (Ohio University Press Cloth)
ISBN 0-8214-1311-2 (Ohio University Press Paper)

Typeset in 10/11pt Baskerville
by Long House Publishing Services, Cumbria, UK
Printed in Great Britain
by Villiers Publications, London N3

ISBN 978-1-78204-784-1 (James Currey eISBN)

ISBN 978-0-8214-4570-9 (Ohio University Press eISBN)

For Dan Mudoola

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Preface

JOHN MIDDLETON

On 2 January 1985, an Acholi woman from northern Uganda named Alice Auma was possessed by an alien Christian spirit known as Lakwena (Messenger in Acholi), and became known as Alice Lakwena. From this event ensued a powerful prophetic movement, the Holy Spirit Movement, and its very nearly successful military insurrection against the government of Uganda. Alice was still alive, a refugee in Kenya, when this book was published. A last report was of her sitting in a bar drinking gin and Pepsi-Cola: Lakwena had deserted her. Hers was a personal tragedy. But if we look behind her, as is done in this valuable book, we can discern a far greater tragedy, namely, the history of the many thousands of Acholi men and women who took her as their prophet and followed Lakwenas message to put right the cruel and sinful world in which they lived, a message that led them to defeat and even greater misery. Alices Holy Spirit Movement failed: yet, like many failures it transformed its countrys history.

Prophets and prophetic movements are nothing new in African history, but few prophets have been observed by outsiders. Many appeared during the colonial period in reaction to unpopular administrations; the colonial administrators considered the prophets to be rebels and tried to prevent outsiders from meeting them. A problem in studying them is that many prophetic movements have today been mythologized as national independence movements, and most of their prophets have become mythical personages. It is difficult to reconstruct events.

Many sanguine politicians expected that, after political independence, these movements would cease, but they have not done so. We should ask why these movements still appear and become strong enough to lead to overt political action. The people who take part in them are ordinary citizens and not crazed religious maniacs. Why do people follow self-proclaimed prophets, and why do they die for their beliefs? These are important questions, and this book provides some of the answers within a specific region at a specific time in history, rather than giving wholly theoretical generalizations.

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