Fifty years ago, Ugandan President Idi Amin wrote to the governments of the British Commonwealth with a bold suggestion: Allow him to take over as head of the organization, replacing Queen Elizabeth ...
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Former Ugandan President Idi Amin, exiled in Saudi Arabia after an eight-year rule marked by breathtaking brutality, was in a coma and in deteriorating condition Monday, a hospital official said. The ...
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‘Slow Poison’ Review: Idi Amin Reconsidered
Mahmood Mamdani has written a startling book. Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” ...
KAMPALA, Uganda — Four years ago, researchers working to preserve Ugandan history came across an old metal filing cabinet at the state broadcasting company and pried it open. Inside were some 70,000 ...
Revolutionary greetings, comrade Nkwanzi Mhango. In your article published in Sunday Monitor, July 17, you made three key assertions: 1) That former president Idi Amin staged a bloodless coup in ...
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