The resulting movie, Barbet Schroeder’s General Idi Amin Dada (which was released last year on DVD by Criterion), is a devastating look at despotism in action and a riveting, and strangely ...

The boogeyman of the 1970s, Idi Amin Dada, arrives on screen, and in full bellow in “The Last King of Scotland.” As portrayed by Forest Whitaker, Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan Kingpin ...

He was born Idi Amin Dada Oumee, in about 1926 in the village of Koboko, near the northern Sudanese border of what was then the British Protectorate of Uganda. His was a family of poor farmers ...

Barbet Schroeder s documentary General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait was intended as a candid portrayal of the Ugandan dictator. If Schroeder can be accused of fraternising with Amin ...

Idi Amin was used by Obote to cement his grip on power but would later be used by the British to oust Obote. To attempt to understand the man who replaced Apollo Milton Obote and the rampage he ...