It will become the lifetime pre-occupation and responsibility of your offspring to bear the burdens of your sins ...

Idi Amin (right) lived in the house when was deployed to Kiamacibi village in Mathira constituency to fight the Mau Mau. [Courtesy] Whenever a mention of Idi Amin Dada’s name is made in the interior ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Can Idi Amin be rehabilitated? The question is animating some in this East African country two decades after the death of one of Africa's most infamous leaders. Amin, who took power ...

A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda. By Derek Peterson. Yale University Press; 376 pages; $35 and £25 Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni and the Making of the Ugandan State. By Mahmood Mamdani.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) Fifty years ago, Ugandan ...

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 ...

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, ...