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Auma, Alice, 1956-2007

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Personal name headingAuma, Alice, 1956-2007
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Variant(s)Lakwena, Alice, 1956-2007
Associated countryUganda
Associated placeKenya
Birth date1956
Death date20070117
Place of birthBungatira (Uganda)
Place of deathKenya
AffiliationHoly Spirit Mobile Forces (Religious order) Holy Spirit Safety Precautions (Religious order)
Profession or occupationSpiritualists Military officers
Found inAlice und die Geister, c1993: t.p. (Alice Auma)
Alice Lakwena & the spirits, 2000: CIP galley (Alice Auma; possessed by spirit Lakwena and became known as Alice Lakwena)
Times online WWW site, Jan. 24, 2007 (Alice Lakwena; b. Alice Auma, probably in 1956, Acholiland; d. Jan. 17, 2007; elusive and enigmatic leader of the Holy Spirit Movement guerrillas in northern Uganda)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 19, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Lakwena, Alice Auma; Alice Auma; spiritualist, foreign military officer; born 1956 in Bungatira, Uganda; raised in the Anglican faith, then converted to Catholicism; began preaching the word of God (1985); was a medium of Christian spirit named Lakwena (messenger or apostle) during Ugandan civil war; after spirit's order healed the sick, then led holy war against evil in Uganda, against government army, internal enemy: impure soldiers, witches and pagans; founded Holy Spirit Mobile Forces (HSMF); tried to establish new moral order Holy Spirit Safety Precautions; was granted political asylum after defeat of HSMF in Kenya (1987); became a Christian prophetess in a refugee camp, Kenya; died 17 January, 2007, near Dedaab, Kenya)