Slow Poison: IDI Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Belknap PressISBN-13:9780674299870ISBN-10:674299876UPC:9780674299870Book Category:Political Science, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:World, Africa, PoliticalBook Topic:African, EastSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCF388DPJA
A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland.
In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by "an orgy of violence." Two years earlier, with support from the colonial powers of Great Britain and Israel, Idi Amin had forcefully cemented his rule. He soon expelled Uganda's...Language:EnglishPublisher:Belknap PressISBN-13:9780674299870ISBN-10:674299876UPC:9780674299870Book Category:Political Science, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:World, Africa, PoliticalBook Topic:African, EastSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCF388DPJA
Mamdani, Mahmood: - Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He was Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala from 2010 to 2022. His books include Neither Settler nor Native, Citizen and Subject, When Victims Become Killers, and Good Muslim, Bad...
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