John Iliffe was interested in evidence and interpretation, not theoretical abstraction.
- Ali Mazrui Professor of History & African Studies, University of Michigan
A new book delves into the tactics and people that propped up the brutal Ugandan dictator’s regime.
The founding story of Museveni’s government remains persuasive for a great many people 37 years later.
The history of Christian nonconformism should lead church leaders to look with sympathy on gay Ugandans’ situation today.
The inhumanity of Idi Amin’s ‘economic war’ was about much more than the expulsion of Asians.
The Kenya that Njonjo sought to create was the ‘greatest living example of democracy, justice and peace’ – but there was no space for the poor.
Hidden for decades in a vault at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, the photographs depict a regime fixated on establishing order, meting out punishment and stoking nationalism.
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