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11 unusual facts about Idi Amin


1977 Uganda Cup

At a time of the Idi Amin regime, the Army side, Simba FC, were eager to represent the country and forced the organisers to change the date of the final.

1977 Uganda National League

In 1979 the ban was lifted in after the regime of Idi Amin had ended.

Allan Hogan

During this time, he reported from the Vietnam War and conducted interviews with such infamous characters as Idi Amin.

Emmanuel Amey Ojara

Being and Acholi and a member of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party and fearing for his life he was forced to flee Uganda in 1977 during the height of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's rule and ended up in Kenya where he join The University of Nairobi Medical School as a lecturer in the same year.

Geoffrey Oryema

In 1977, at the age of 24 and at the height of Idi Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border in the trunk of a car, after the death of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister, beginning a life in exile.

Iron Sunrise

Shortly thereafter she finds herself negotiating with a lunatic believing himself to be a reincarnation of Idi Amin and in possession of an armed nuclear device which, in the black humor typical of the series, he has threatened to detonate after receiving an eviction notice from his apartment.

Kilembe Mines FC

However, the mines fell victim to President Idi Amin’s “economic war” aimed at empowering indigenous Ugandans.

Maggie Kigozi

She returned to Uganda in 1979 following the removal of Idi Amin from power, but had to flee to neighboring Kenya, after Milton Obote seized power in 1980.

Namumkin

Namumkin is a feature-length film released in 1988, telling the story of an Asian family exiled from Idi Amin's Uganda.

Scott Tannas

While in Uganda, the regime of Idi Amin gained control of the country and the Tannas family returned to Canada.

Star Trails

"King of Scotland", the album's second single, is about Idi Amin, who once proclaimed himself king of Scotland after becoming infatuated with the country on a state visit to Great Britain.


Bidhu Jha

Jha authored the screenplay for a full-length feature film entitled Namumkin (1988), telling the story of an Asian family exiled from Idi Amin's Uganda.

Brian Barron

Based in Nairobi from 1977 onwards, covering all of Africa as chief correspondent, Barron covered the end of the regime of Idi Amin, and was the first foreign correspondent to reach an abandoned Kampala, filing a report from the headquarters of the State Research Bureau, Amin's secret police.

Bukwa District

Subsequent Ugandan Governments have not developed this part of the country, starting with the colonial governments in the early part of the 20th century, through the Obote I, Idi Amin, Obote II and NRM regimes.

Gottfried Lessing

He and his third wife were killed during the riots against Idi Amin's rule in 1979, in Kampala, Uganda.

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, also known as Amin: The Rise and Fall, is a 1981 biographical film directed by Sharad Patel and starring Joseph Olita as Idi Amin.

Rolf Steiner

He offered his services to Idi Amin, then commander of the Ugandan Army, who was funding the Anyanya rebel forces, and was dispatched to the war zone.

Saba Saba

Born in Jinja, Uganda, during the dictatorship of Idi Amin, Saba Saba spent the early years of his life running from place to place with his family to avoid political turmoil and fighting.

Seifu Mekonnen

Mekonnen received awards and recognition from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, president Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, president Idi Amin of Uganda, and president Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.