Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi died on 29 February aged 98.
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Ali Hassan Mwinyi successfully drove economic and political reforms in Tanzania, all in the shadow of his predecessor, Julius Nyerere.
Just three months after his left arm was amputated in 1990, Mohamed Amin was back at work with a bionic arm.
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His photos and videos depicting postcolonialism and everyday life in Africa have been overlooked.
Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman (left) with prime minister Rishi Sunak. Both are of Indian-African descent.
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Members of diasporas may choose to identify with multiple homelands and host countries over time.
King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort, in April 2023.
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The visit will acknowledge the more painful aspects of the UK and Kenya’s colonial history.
President Yoweri Museveni salutes the army during the 25th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Army in 2005.
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The founding story of Museveni’s government remains persuasive for a great many people 37 years later.
Joseph Kony speaks to journalists in southern Sudan in November 2006.
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The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
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Smuggling in Uganda’s West Nile region is seen as an act of defiance – a way to make ends meet in the face of perceived state neglect.
South African comedian Trevor Noah at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 12, 2022.
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The comic offers important ways of criticising those in power. Trevor Noah is superb at it.
Ugandan President Idi Amin gestures during a speech in 1973.
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The inhumanity of Idi Amin’s ‘economic war’ was about much more than the expulsion of Asians.
There are few ways for the West to deter the rise of another dictator like Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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In recent years, Western governments have, in effect, aided the rise of personalist dictators in Russia, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Venezuela.
Ugandan strongman General Idi Amin raised the national profile of Uganda Nubians – but they were persecuted soon after his overthrow in 1979.
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There is more to ethnic identity than ancestral location or settlement pattern, language or family history.
Kenya’s founding president Jomo Kenyatta attends a ceremony in 1964 in Nairobi.
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Far from the myth of the omnipotent father of the nation, big man or dictator, the Kenyan presidential system was built on divisions and uncertainty.
A military officer distributes maize flour in Kampala, Uganda, where the urban poor have been affected by the lockdown.
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The relationship between the country’s security forces and the civilian population has always been uneasy.
Idi Amin at a press conference in Jjaja Marina, Uganda in July 1975.
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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.
US President Donald Trump and African dictator Idi Amin - different, but the same.
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Some may say it’s far fetched to compare a 1970s African dictator with the President of the United States. But the similarities between Idi Amin and Donald Trump are quite startling.
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Ranting narcissists with no patience for detail have terrorised and suppressed their people the world over. Is a new one about to join their ranks?
Riot police detain a supporter of Forum for Democratic Change, Uganda’s leading opposition party, as they break up a campaign procession.
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The heavy-handed tactics used by Uganda’s authorities during the 2016 elections have raised questions about a return to an oppressive past.