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Idi Amin : the story of Africa's icon of evil /

The first serious full-length biography of modern Africa's most famous dictator. Idi Amin began his career in the British army in colonial Uganda, and worked his way up the ranks before seizing power in a British-backed coup in 1971. He built a violent and unstable dictatorship, ruthlessly elim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leopold, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Idi Amin Dada, man and myth
  • 'Wrung from the withers of the Western Nile': background, birth and youth, 1928(?)-46
  • 'He comes from a fighting race': life in the King's African Rifles, 1946(?)-59
  • A resistible rise? 1959-65
  • Amin and Obote, 1965-69
  • 'Martial music': the build-up, the coup and the aftermath, 1969-71
  • A honeymoon and four divorces: the first two years of Uganda's Second Republic, 1971-73
  • The centre cannot hold: President Amin, 1973-76
  • Decline and fall: Idi Amin and Uganda, 1977-79, and after.