A refugee with little sight and no English, he had been jailed for a year, intercepted by federal agents and delivered to a ...

A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention. By Paul Vitello Jamil Abdullah ...

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight ...

When Radio Uganda announced at dawn on 25 January 1971 that Idi Amin was Uganda's new ruler, many people suspected that Britain had a hand in the coup. However, Foreign Office papers released last ...

Last weekend, I saw the "The Last King of Scotland." It reminds me of the old joke that "The Prince of Tides" was neither about princes nor tides. Well this movie was neither about kings nor Scotland.

Idi Amin presided over a reign of terror in Uganda, during which an estimated 300,000 people died. He seized power in 1971 and condemned his country to a decade of ...

The anthropologist and father of New York’s mayor-elect offers a revisionist view of modern Ugandan history Children of Ugandan Indians are having a bit of a moment. Electropop boasts Charlie XCX; ...

Final hold. From eye witness accounts, former president Idi Amin escaped from his ‘Cape Town Villa’ home in Luzira to Jinja by a helicopter on April 10, 1979, at about 4pm. In Jinja, he addressed the ...

KAMPALA, Uganda, Aug. 19 (JTA) — African strongman Idi Amin, who died last week, was embraced and then reviled by Israel during his military career and his murderous eight-year reign at Uganda’s helm.