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Idi Roi
The eight-year regime of Idi Amin in Uganda will go down in history as one of the 20th-century’s horrors that could have been prevented. From Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Macias Nguema’s Equatorial Guinea, the outside world was excluded, and was therefore relatively impotent and ignorant. That was not true of Uganda. Amin strutted on the world stage: he went to the United Nations, made official visits to West Germany and Israel, was received by the Queen, and was still getting rounds of applause from African crowds as late as September (at Kenyatta’s funeral) and from African heads of state, in the summer of the same year, at the Organisation of African Unity summit in Khartoum. To Britain’s disgrace, as George Ivan Smith points out, it will be remembered that Uganda Airlines flights to Stansted, where Amin bought the Western luxury goods that kept his inner circle loyal, went on until 4 March , when the Tanzanian Army was on the point of ousting him. With the honourable exceptions of the Presidents of Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana, the world did not care enough about Amin’s butcheries to impose against him an economic blockade and a refusal to buy Ugandan coffee. This would have turned his b
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Inzikuru: No respect!
UGANDA’S No1 Journalist. INFORMED, Moot AND PROVOCATIVE
John Nagenda
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Our loss of faith in our ability to turn around our continent has us searching the sky for answers. But to quote Shakespeare: &#;The fault&#; is not in our stars but in our selves&#;&#;
In the s while filming in Mozambique, a wise old man told me a wonderfully illuminating proverb: ‘When people lose faith in each other, they look up to the sky and turn to God.’ The proverb explains much about Africa.
At independence our continent was full of hope, optimism and a stunning vision. People trusted and worked with each other as they fought the liberation struggle. Across ethnic, language and religious lines, we would together reclaim our continent from the colonialists and build new nations offering peace, dignity and prosperity. Secular ideas such as nationalism, Pan-Africanism, or socialism were the buzzwords and leaders who promoted these (Nkrumah, Nasser, Nyerere, etc) were the dominant personalities and heroes. Others that agitated along pre-colonial religious, regional or ethnic lines were considered retrograde and marginal.
The dreams of independence soon collapsed in rancour, backbiting and bitter hatreds. My own country Nigeria followed the trajectory of many African countries. Rigged elections and corruption destroyed trust; military coups introduced impunity and right