Ugandan President, Professor. He served as the 4th President of Uganda from April to June 1979. Born in Kampala, he attended King's College Budo and later Makerere College with a specialty in Sociology. He would later become a lecturer at Makerere College. He then studied at Fort Hare University in South Africa and the University of Edinburgh before coming back to Uganda to continue working as a lecturer at Makerere University. It was soon after that he was named the first black principal in 1964. In 1970, President Milton Obote removed him as Makerere University vice-chancellor. After Obote was overthrown in a military coup d'état led by Idi Amin in 1971, Lule went to exile and settled and worked in the United Kingdom. After the outbreak of the Uganda–Tanzania War in 1978, Ugandan rebels and exiles began making preparations for the establishment of a new government to follow Idi Amin's regime, led primarily by former president Milton Obote and Dani Wadada Nabudere in their own respective circles. As the Tanzanians began organising a conference for the rebels and exiles, President Julius Nyerere was reconsidering Obote's role in the movement. He did not want to give the impression that Tanzania was going to install a government of its own choice in Uganda by facilitating Obote's assumption of leadership of the rebel movement, and there was hostility towards him from the Baganda people in southern Uganda as well as other countries, like Kenya. He also feared that Obote would stifle cooperation at the meeting and cause it to break up, ultimately convincing him not to attend. Many Ugandan exiles then began to favour Lule, who was a political moderate as well as not being tarnished by scandal or corruption. On March 24, 1979, The Moshi Conference was opened, and the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) was formed. The next two days were spent debating the balance of power among the governing bodies and the selection of a chairman for the organisation, which was contested between Yusuf Lule and Paulo Muwanga, an Obote supporter. Lule would be given the chair and Muwanga would be made head of the Military Affairs Commission. After the fall of Kampala and Amin's depisition, Lule and his cabinet boarded a flight from Dar es Salaam to Entebbe to fly in for his inauguration. The next day he was sworn in as President of Uganda and gave a brief speech pledging to bring a return of law and order. During his presidency, he secured a £100 million aid programme from Western countries, alienating leftists who feared he would sellout the country to international business interests. He conferred more powers upon Buganda's government, appointed prominent Baganda monarchists to high office, and granted state contracts to Baganda businessmen. Other ethnic groups in Uganda did not trust Lule, since they felt he promoted Buganda at other regions' expense. His handling of his cabinet provoked outrage in the National Consultative Committee (NCC), as he took many major decisions without the NCC's approval, including appointing several ministers, and the dismissal of Muwanga from office. On June 20, 1979, he was removed from office after a vote of no confidence from the NCC. He was succeeded by Godfrey Binaisa. Out of office, he went to exile in Tanzania, where he was put under house arrest for three weeks before being allowed to fly to London. For the last six years of his life, Lule periodically received treatment for a kidney disorder at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He died there of kidney failure following surgery. He is the shortest-serving president of Uganda.