Idi Roi
Victoria Brittain, 21 August 1980
Ghosts of Kampala: The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
by George Ivan Smith.
Weidenfeld, 198 pp., £7.95, June 1980,0 297 77721 1 Show More
by George Ivan Smith.
Weidenfeld, 198 pp., £7.95, June 1980,
African Upheavals since Independence
by G.S. Ibingira.
Westview/Benn, 349 pp., £14.95, January 1980,0 89158 585 0 Show More
by G.S. Ibingira.
Westview/Benn, 349 pp., £14.95, January 1980,
A Political History of Uganda
by S.R. Karugire.
Heinemann, 240 pp., £7.50, May 1980,0 435 94524 6 Show More
by S.R. Karugire.
Heinemann, 240 pp., £7.50, May 1980,
“... of the key questions about ‘the rise and fall of Idi Amin’ but most of the answers are in G.S. Ibingira’s African Upheavals since Independence. Grace Ibingira was Amin’s ambassador to the United Nations until he, too, defected in early 1974. From the vantage-point of architect and Secretary-General of Dr Obote’s ... ”