A National Resistance Army fighter of Rwandan origin, Fred Rwigyema was killed on the first day of the Banyarwanda refugees ...

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We all know what it’s like to be entranced by a brilliant movie and lose ourselves totally in the magic. Whether we are at a ...

In 1979, Amin was over thrown by the Tanzanian Army and he was exiled in Saudi Arabia were he later died. Mwanga who was taken out of Uganda when his father was overthrown also attended the former ...

Mahmood Mamdani is often described as the father of Zohran Mamdani, NYC's next mayor. But long before his son's political ambitions, Mamdani was a prominent scholar whose work examined colonialism and ...

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 ...

We speak with the acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani, who has just released a new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State. Mamdani, who has taught ...

In the summer of 1967, Mahmood Mamdani had a plan. Newly graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and recently admitted to the Fletcher School of Law ...

It was 50 years ago today on the East Side of Manhattan when a cabal at the UN, led by despots like Idi Amin along with the Soviet bloc, pushed through an obscene resolution that in the ringing ...

“L et’s not talk about the mayor thing.” Thus Mahmood Mamdani made clear that he did not want to discuss his son, Zohran, who 48 hours earlier had been elected the next mayor of New York City. If the ...

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Nigerian writer and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka says the U.S. government revoked his visa, and he believes it’s in retaliation for comments he made criticizing former President Donald Trump.