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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leopold, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Amin, Idi, > 1925-2003.
Amin, Idi, > 1925-2003
1971-1979
Presidents > Uganda > Biography.
Présidents > Ouganda > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State.
Presidents
Berufslaufbahn.
Innenpolitik.
Karriere.
Staatsoberhaupt.
Diktatur.
Uganda > History > 1971-1979.
Ouganda > Histoire > 1971-1979.
Uganda
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items