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Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Uganda: Pressure Groups Material


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0101 PG.UG

Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Title: Uganda: Pressure Groups Material

Date(s): 1977-1986

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Institute of Commonwealth Studies

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The materials held here mainly originate from groups opposed to the regime of Idi Amin, based both in Uganda and abroad. They include the National Resistance Movement (NRA), which later went on to take power in 1986 following the failure of Obote's Uganda People's Congress (UPC) to improve the economic and human rights situation in the country.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Uganda: Pressure Groups Material, 1977-1986, comprising testimonies, newspaper articles, manifestos, constitutions and statements issued by the Committee on Uganda, the National Resistance Movement (Uganda), the Save Uganda Movement, the Uganda Freedom Committee, the Uganda Freedom Fighters, the Uganda Group for Human Rights, the Uganda Liberation Group in Zambia and the Uganda National Movement.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Alphabetically according to group and then in rough chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Open to all for research purposes; access is free for anyone in higher education.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can usually be obtained - apply to library staff.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Records at item level on library catalogue (SASCAT)

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected at present.

Archival history:

The Commonwealth Political Parties Materials collection was begun in 1960-61, with special emphasis being placed then, as now, on 'primary material such as party constitutions, policy statements, convention reports and election manifestos.' (ICS, Twelfth Annual Report 1960-1961). Since then, the main method of gathering material has been to appeal directly to political parties throughout the Commonwealth, though contributions from Institute members and staff following visits to relevant countries have been significant.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also Uganda: Political Parties Materials (UG.PP) as well as Political Party, Trades Unions and Pressure Group Materials for other Commonwealth countries and related material in the library's main classified sequence, all held at the ICS.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Description compiled by Daniel Millum, Political Archives Project Officer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Created 08/11/2004 AIM25


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
African history | National history
Guerilla activities | Political movements
Interest groups | Groups
Politics | Political science
Human rights

Personal names
Oumee | Idi Amin Dada | b 1925 | President of Uganda x Amin | Idi

Corporate names
Committee on Uganda
National Resistance Movement (Uganda)
Save Uganda Movement
Uganda Freedom Committee
Uganda Freedom Fighters
Uganda Group for Human Rights
Uganda Liberation Group in Zambia
Uganda National Movement

Places
Buganda | Uganda | East Africa