Early Years
Lule has been student at Fort Hare University at Alice, South Africa. He was a great sportsman in the thirties, mainly in athletics (880 yards) where he was national champion. Lule served as a minister in the pre-independence British colonial government and later as an assistant secretary general of the Commonwealth secretariat. He went into exile after Amin came to power.
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