Idi Amin was a first-rate rugby player and a jolly good fellow but a total blockhead, according to an assessment of the former Ugandan dictator made by British officials in 1964. The note ...

Fifty years ago, on Aug. 4, 1972, Ugandan President Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of the country’s entire Asian population, giving them just 90 days to leave. Amin accused Asians of refusing to ...

It is funny, heart-wrenching, horrific and paranoid, all to the beat of an earth-shaking, booty-quaking Afro-pop soundtrack. As Idi Amin Dada, the charismatic, man-child-monster, Whitaker devours ...

Culture of the Sepulchre by Madanjeet Singh contains a personal account of the last two years of Idi Amin as the ... Ali Towelli and Amin's ‘killer-in-chief.' The moment he learns of his ...

the men behind The Naked Gun talk us through its most iconic moments. “I’ve finally found someone I can love. A good clean love, without utensils.” The film opens with Idi Amin chairing a ...

Ate them. So why was this funny over here in the West? Why was Idi Amin a punch line instead of a byword for the nightmarish character of postcolonial dystopias? Because it was Africa, had nothing ...

These were the early days of Idi Amin’s military dictatorship in the 1970s. Her father had been a local politician under the previous Ugandan regime; soldiers hunted him down like “a loose ...

Uganda hopes to attract tourists with a war museum showcasing some of the darkest moments from its history. Atrocities committed under ex-President Idi Amin's brutal eight-year rule and by the ...

A former midwife has recalled the moment she helped deliver a child of murderous Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, 50 years since thousands of people like her fled the country. Yasmin Lalani was among ...

On July 15, 1975, Uganda’s president Idi Amin was promoted from the rank of a four-star General to Field Marshal. Field Marshal is the highest rank in the British Army since 1736. Previously ...