In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years. Idi Amin in Kampala, 1975. As a wandering freelance reporter in West Africa at the end of ...

Idi Amin is often considered Africa’s most notorious postcolonial dictator. Around the time of his government’s fall in 1979, dozens of accounts and biographies emerged, each telling horrific stories ...

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Idi Amin rose from a teenage recruit in the King’s African Rifles to the presidency of Uganda through a military coup in 1971. A national athlete, a popular army commander, a charismatic figure—and ...

The story of Idi Amin and his women is bizarre, peculiar, comical and brutal. He had five wives, 30 mistresses and 34 children. Before rising to Uganda’s presidency, Amin worked as a bellboy at the ...

Idi Amin’s first wife, Sarah Kibedi, defied her parents’ wishes when she married him at the age of 22 in March 1962. She converted to Islam and began calling herself Mariam. It did not take long for ...

This is a continuation of my series of articles on the performance of Uganda’s Judiciary in constitutional transformation. A fortnight ago, I illustrated the complete breakdown of the rule of law ...

Israeli commandos with a Mercedes-Benz 600 resembling the one owned by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, used by Sayeret Matkal to deceive Ugandan troops during the raid (File Image) Israel’s intelligence ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The opposition leader in the Ugandan Parliament sees the Ugandan-born Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral race as an inspiring political shift but somehow too ...

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A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda. By Derek Peterson. Yale University Press; 376 pages; $35 and £25 Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni and the Making of the Ugandan State. By Mahmood Mamdani.