See how Idi Amin used military force to achieve power and build a dictatorship in Uganda. See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda.

Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator who died last week, was notoriously brutal and capricious. He was also notoriously hungry for publicity. Amin, as his obituary in the New York Times put it, ...

See how Idi Amin used military force to seize power and build a dictatorship in Uganda. See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda.

On this day in 1971, General Idi Amin Dada named himself the third president of Uganda, a week after leading the military coup that toppled the country’s second post-colonial leader, Milton Obote.

In 1966, the writer was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence. It shaped his thinking about travel writing’s imperative to bear witness. By Paul Theroux Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ...