Former Somali president Siad Barre cuts a tape to open a road named after him in Kampala in October 1972. Looking on is Brig Nur Adow (left), president Idi Amin (centre) and Uganda’s minister for ...

In the second instalment of the serialisation of the book titled Reinventing Uganda: Political Imagination and Social Change After the Fall of Idi Amin (1979-80), Florence Brisset-Foucault, Jessica ...

Uganda’s military chief has warned the African country’s armed forces could enter the Iran war on Israel’s side after issuing a series of statements on social media that went viral this week. Gen.

With a global platform, Mamdani can call attention to human rights abuses in his birth country, Uganda, particularly those against the musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine. Founded in 1969, the ...

In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years. Idi Amin in Kampala, 1975. As a wandering freelance reporter in West Africa at the end of ...

We speak with the acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani, who has just released a new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State. Mamdani, who has taught ...

In the summer of 1967, Mahmood Mamdani had a plan. Newly graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and recently admitted to the Fletcher School of Law ...

Tauche ein in das spannende Leben von Idi Amin! Vom armen Jungen zum gefürchteten Diktator – wir nehmen dich mit auf eine wilde Achterbahnfahrt durch Ugandas Geschichte. Entdecke Skandale, Machtspiele ...

It was 50 years ago today on the East Side of Manhattan when a cabal at the UN, led by despots like Idi Amin along with the Soviet bloc, pushed through an obscene resolution that in the ringing ...

“L et’s not talk about the mayor thing.” Thus Mahmood Mamdani made clear that he did not want to discuss his son, Zohran, who 48 hours earlier had been elected the next mayor of New York City. If the ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The opposition leader in the Ugandan Parliament sees the Ugandan-born Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral race as an inspiring political shift but somehow too ...