In 1978-79 the President of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, lent his ‘walking stick’; the Tanzania Peoples Defence Forces (TPDF) to ...

Siblings Zaff and Nasari took their late father’s projector to the barn along with reels of home movies he had filmed when they were growing up in Uganda. The reels "never saw the light of day" after ...

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 years ...

The relationship between Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and Daniel arap Moi had deteriorated so badly in the late 1970s during the ...

Hope is the vortex of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians using the analogy of ‘a grain wheat’: for it dies first before it ...

The year was 1971. General Idi Amin unseated Uganda’s civilian president, Milton Obote. On the night of the coup, I was awakened by a knock on my door. Looking through the peephole, I saw a ...

Britain's Lord Owen, Foreign Secretary from 1976 to 1979, has revealed that he once raised the prospect of having Idi Amin assassinated. The then Labour government was trying to distance itself ...

The year was 1972, and all Asians were being forced out of Uganda by dictator President Idi Amin, who had accused them of having sabotaged the economy and seized their property. About 30,000 ...

A powerful thriller that recreates the world of Uganda under the mad dictatorship of Idi Amin, deftly mixing fact and fiction to create a story startlingly resonant in today's world.

Idi Amin, the ruthless former dictator of Uganda, has been buried during a small funeral ceremony, in Saudi Arabia, just hours after his death. Amin, who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds ...