Alice Auma (1956 – 17 January 2007) was a Ugandan spirit-medium who, as the head of the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM), led a millennial rebellion against the Ugandan government forces of President Yoweri Museveni from August 1986 until November 1987.

2025年2月22日 · Alice Auma, also known as Alice Lakwena, was a Ugandan spirit-medium who led the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) in a millennial rebellion against the Ugandan government forces of President Yoweri Museveni from August 1986 until November 1987.

2018年10月13日 · She was a 30-year-old woman, Alice Auma Lakwena, a former fishmonger and a flour trader in Opit railway station in southern Gulu. Although Auma neither had a military background nor proper...

The Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) was a Ugandan religiously syncretic Christian militant rebel organization centered upon its founder, self-declared spirit medium and prophetess Alice Lakwena (Auma). Alice, an ethnic Acholi, [1] was purportedly directed to form the HSM by Lakwena, one of her spirits, in August 1986.

Alice Auma (1956 – 17 January 2007) was an Acholi spirit-medium who, as the head of the Holy Spirit Movement, led a millennial rebellion against the Ugandan government forces of President Yoweri Museveni from August 1986 until November 1987. The primary spirit she purportedly channeled was that...

The Holy Spirit Movement was a spiritual and military movement that emerged in northern Uganda in the late 1980s, led by Alice Auma, who was known as Alice Lakwena, who claimed to be a prophet (nebi).

Alice Auma (1956 – 17 January 2007) was an Acholi spirit-medium who, as the head of the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM), led a millennial rebellion against the Ugandan government forces of...

Alice Auma (1956 – 17 January 2007) was an Acholi spirit-medium who, as the head of the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM), led a millennial rebellion against the Ugandan government forces of President Yoweri Museveni from August 1986 until November 1987.

Alice Auma, a Ugandan mystic and clairvoyant, played a significant role in Uganda's political and religious landscape. She founded the Holy Spirit Movement and led a millenarian anti-government rebellion in the 1980s.

In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young woman from Gulu in Acholi in northern Uganda, began raising an army, which was called the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces (HSMF).¹ From a local perspective, she did this on orders from and as the spirit …