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Article: Idi Amin's Africa.(The Providence Journal)
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- August 22, 2003
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Byline: Philip Terzian
WASHINGTON _ A cousin of mine, long since dead, had a baby grand piano and mordant sense of humor. So one year, for his birthday, I sent him a gilt-framed photograph (suitable for propping on the Baldwin) of President Idi Amin of Uganda, seated, in his robes as chancellor of Makerere University.
It was, as such things go, pretty funny: The late Idi Amin was, in the words of The New York Times, a "beefy, sadistic and telegenic despot," barely literate, and his pensive pose, in academic regalia, struck just the right discordant note. There were many such pictures. The most famous was a 1975 shot of the president, enthroned, moving ...
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Article: Idi Amin Dada
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...Idi Amin Dada As president of Uganda (1971-1979) Idi Amin Dada (born c. 1925) became notorious ... and 1927 in Koboko, West Nile Province, Idi Amin's father was a Kakwa. The Kakwa tribe ...
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