To some extent, most documentaries rely upon the participation of their subjects. So how do you film a fairly negative documentary about a dangerous and powerful military dictator? Well, if you're ...

In the new film The Last King of Scotland, Forrest Whitaker plays Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as a force of nature who sees his power with good intentions. (Soundbite of movie "The Last King of Scotland ...

Idi Amin joined the King’s African Rifles (KAR) and it is where he trained as an army man. He rose through different military ranks up to a level of a self-styled field marshal. He assumed a position ...

Siaya, Kenya: The man who acted as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in the popular film Rise and Fall of Idi Amin has died at the age of 70. Joseph Olita died suddenly at his rural home in South ...

The former Ugandan leader, Idi Amin Dada, has a well-deserved reputation as a ruthless dictator. But as he fights for his life in a Saudi Arabian hospital, the chance of him ever being brought to ...

The organisers of the inaugural memorial lecture for President Idi Amin Dada have insisted that they would go ahead to conduct the lecture as planned on September 1 in Arua City despite the hiccups on ...

On this day in 1971, General Idi Amin Dada named himself the third president of Uganda, a week after leading the military coup that toppled the country’s second post-colonial leader, Milton Obote.

People like to compare our current “leader” to Hitler, and not without cause, but if you ask me, he’s more like Idi Amin: bumbling strongman, intermittently charming liar, fascinating mess, likely ...

Siaya, Kenya: The man who acted as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in the popular film Rise and Fall of Idi Amin has died at the age of 70. Joseph Olita died suddenly at his rural home in South ...

AT ONE POINT, he was the world’s deadliest clown. Idi Amin was the jovial, baby-faced psychopath who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, gaining power by literally feeding his enemies to the crocodiles.