He wanted to be a writer, but believes he’ll get his message across more easily through music.
Articles on Idi Amin
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Museveni came to power with the sense that violence is critical to politics, and especially critical to liberation politics.
Political policing in Uganda’s electoral landscape sustains the struggle for power.
A new book delves into the tactics and people that propped up the brutal Ugandan dictator’s regime.
Mamdanis belong to the Khoja community, who were categorized by the British in the early 19th century as “Hindoo Mussalman” because their traditions spanned both religions.
Ali Hassan Mwinyi successfully drove economic and political reforms in Tanzania, all in the shadow of his predecessor, Julius Nyerere.
His photos and videos depicting postcolonialism and everyday life in Africa have been overlooked.
Members of diasporas may choose to identify with multiple homelands and host countries over time.
The visit will acknowledge the more painful aspects of the UK and Kenya’s colonial history.
The founding story of Museveni’s government remains persuasive for a great many people 37 years later.
The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
Smuggling in Uganda’s West Nile region is seen as an act of defiance – a way to make ends meet in the face of perceived state neglect.
The comic offers important ways of criticising those in power. Trevor Noah is superb at it.
The inhumanity of Idi Amin’s ‘economic war’ was about much more than the expulsion of Asians.
In recent years, Western governments have, in effect, aided the rise of personalist dictators in Russia, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Venezuela.
There is more to ethnic identity than ancestral location or settlement pattern, language or family history.
Far from the myth of the omnipotent father of the nation, big man or dictator, the Kenyan presidential system was built on divisions and uncertainty.
The relationship between the country’s security forces and the civilian population has always been uneasy.
Hidden for decades in a vault at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, the photographs depict a regime fixated on establishing order, meting out punishment and stoking nationalism.
Some may say it’s far fetched to compare a 1970s African dictator with the President of the United States. But the similarities between Idi Amin and Donald Trump are quite startling.
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Ali Mazrui Professor of History & African Studies, University of Michigan
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Vising Researcher, Global Governance Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Law, University of East London
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Lecturer in International History, Loughborough University
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Lecturer at Journalism and Global Communication, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Researcher, Makerere University
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Adjunct professor, UMass Boston
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PhD Candidate in Journalism, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, Universität Bremen
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Elise Richter Fellow, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Universität Wien
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
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Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
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Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University