Three weeks after Uganda’s highly compromised election allowed Yoweri Museveni to retain power, the leader of the opposition ...
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Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today
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 ...
It’s been decades since I read a book as compelling as Prof Mahmood Mamdani’s extraordinary tour de force on Uganda. For most open-minded readers, this book will shake some deeply entrenched ...
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.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) Fifty years ago, Ugandan ...
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