AT ONE POINT, he was the world’s deadliest clown. Idi Amin was the jovial, baby-faced psychopath who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, gaining power by literally feeding his enemies to the crocodiles.
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.
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, ...
There’s an amusing and telling aside in General Idi Amin Dada, Barbet Schroeder’s remarkable 1974 documentary about the titular Ugandan president, in which the general embarks on a short swimming race ...
This documentary depicts what happens when corruption takes over the country. It follows the life of former dictator of Uganda, Idi Amin Dada, who spent 8 years ...
In modern human history, nationalism, religion and cult-of-personality have converged with catastrophic results for scapegoated groups, outsiders, or so-called “infidels.” Renowned filmmaker Barbet ...
People like to compare our current “leader” to Hitler, and not without cause, but if you ask me, he’s more like Idi Amin: bumbling strongman, intermittently charming liar, fascinating mess, likely ...
Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor-elect of New York City, was born in Uganda to parents of Indian origin, and his family emigrated when he was a child. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Musinguzi Blanshe In 1966, ...
To some extent, most documentaries rely upon the participation of their subjects. So how do you film a fairly negative documentary about a dangerous and powerful military dictator? Well, if you're ...
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