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About a decade ago, I picked up a copy of John Follain's wonderfully entertaining potboiler Jackal: The Complete Story of… ...
Ugandan military dictator Idi Amin, pictured in June 1972, ... this was the era of politician Enoch Powell’s infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech – and unemployment was high.
"Forest came on several times to do different takes of the speech," says Macdonald, "and the man from the village who'd organised everybody to come along told me people were wondering why Idi Amin ...
Uganda’s newest attraction: Idi Amin, ... In one image, he wears an immaculate suit and stands before a cluster of microphones mid-speech with an index finger thrust into the air.
By mal vincent The Virginian-Pilot Few names in modern history are as infamous as that of Idi Amin. The former Ugandan dictator has joined Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Saddam Hussein in the ranks of tyr… ...
The sons of Uganda's former dictator Idi Amin and Tanzania's ex-President Julius Nyerere have met for the first time, three decades after the two countries fought a war. The BBC's Swahili Service ...
We broke down all of the dialogue as well as Idi Amin’s speech patterns; it was like a bible for pronunciation. I took that with me to Uganda. Even while I was working there, I was adding things.
Amin’s bizarre personality was in many ways the product of an impoverished childhood in an occupied nation. Abandoned by his father, he eventually went to work for the British army, where he ...
Idi Amin, the unquestionably evil and perversely fascinating dictator of the east central African nation of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, died Aug. 16 at a hospital in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, where he ...
Ugandan military dictator Idi Amin, pictured in June 1972, ... this was the era of politician Enoch Powell’s infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech – and unemployment was high.