Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirit Movement’s prophetic warfare

Record summary

Although Alice Lakwena’s movement began before the requested period, its military campaign and aftermath remained an important 1990–1991 subject in accounts of northern Uganda. Alice Auma claimed spirit-mediated authority and led the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces in a purification-oriented struggle that promised moral and political transformation. The lead is useful for comparing visionary journeys, possession, prophecy, and armed eschatology with later Lord’s Resistance Army narratives. The movement’s theology, chronology, and relationship to local spirit traditions vary among anthropological, journalistic, and political histories.