The many faces of Idi Amin - The Mail & Guardian

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COMMENT: Was he a joke, an oaf, a hero, or the evil dictator the West loved to hate? Decades after his death, Idi Amin Dada's legacy is still a puzzle.

. He was portrayed as a crazed and unfathomable man. He persists in popular culture well beyond his native Uganda nearly two decades after his demise.

In secondary school, I grew to understand Amin as a dictator with no hesitation to kill. The memory of the funny, oafish and big-footed dancer quickly faded. I would learn from my older siblings of the “random” disappearances in our area under his reign. It soon became clear that he was not the same person we joked about as children. Claims of Amin’s cannibalism and feasting on his son Moses abounded. Although dubious, these were the stories Hollywood would later seize on.

After mixing with wealthy, educated children in London, I started meeting Amin sympathisers — some daring to interrogate the historical amnesia surrounding colonisation and “the empire”. Often, many were happy to ignore Amin’s bloodthirsty paranoia in favour of his ideology.

 

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Museven is more dangerous

His legacy is the tragedy of Museveni.

He was doing his hair cut in france very week

His self-crafted 'Accolades': 'His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular',😆😆

A maniac.

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Idi Amin Dada was anything but a liar. He is in that respect better than the latter day politician whose survival is solely based on falsehood.

He is probably in our time the true face of Africa. For the future of generations to come, may this change.

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