His rise through the ranks continued meteorically, and by 1964 he had been made Deputy Commander of the Army. in 1961 he returned to Uganda, and was one of the first Black Africans to become a commissioned officer when he achieved the rank of lieutenant that same year. The next year he was awarded the rank of Effendi (equivalent to a warrant officer), which was the highest rank that a Black African could obtain at that time. He was quickly promoted again, and by 1953 had been made a sergeant, and in 1958 he was made sergeant major. He returned to Kenya in 1952 to fight Mau Mau rebels. He remained in Kenya for two years, before he and his battalion were transferred to Somalia where they fought Shifta rebels. In 1947, as a private in the army, he was sent to Kenya as a member of the infantry. There, he was a members of the King's African Rifles and served initially as an assistant cook. He performed odd jobs for several years before being recruited into the British Army in 1946. He began attending school in 1941, but left soon after with minimal education- he was functionally illiterate. He was brought up Muslim in a small farming community in northern Uganda. He was raised mainly by his mother and her family, as his father abandoned the family when Amin was young. 1923, though much about his early life is unclear, including his exact year of birth.
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