Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today

Idi Amin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 1975. Bettmann/Getty Images By Derek R. Peterson, Ali Mazrui Professor of History & African Studies, University of Michigan Published: 2025 Jul 18 – Fifty years ago, Ugandan President Idi Amin wrote to the governments …