These plays were all influenced by absurdism, the lack of narrative action mirroring the stagnation of Ugandan society under Milton Obote.
[4] In 1971, the year Idi Amin came to power, Serumaga founded a private theatre group made up of fourteen school leavers.
[5] Serumaga drew on the theories of Constantin Stanislavski and Jerzy Grotowski to train his company in the psychological identification of actor and character.
[9] In late 1978, the Uganda–Tanzania War, whereupon Serumaga helped to organize armed UNO fighters to assist the Tanzanians against Amin's regime.
When Lule was removed from office amid general political turmoil and replaced by Godfrey Binaisa, Serumaga went back into exile and announced the reactivation of the Uganda Nationalist Organization.
He was alleged to have seized a "missing arms depot", and journalist Victoria Brittain judged at the time that Serumaga's group could "cause difficulties in Uganda".