Idi Amin, the dictator of Uganda was born in the 1920s His original name was Idi Amin Dada Oumee. Amin’s early life is shrouded in ambiguity. His father Andreas Nyabire abandoned the family and so his mother brought him up. Originally, Roman Catholics, the family converted to Islam. Amin did not complete his schooling. He ...
It is not an anti-Semitic issue. It is not even an academic freedom issue. It is a common sense issue. When Rev. Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first black archbishop in South Africa, agrees to speak at your university, you do not stop to think and you definitely do not decline ...
Americans of advanced middle age will remember the late ’60s and ’70s as a time of worldwide social upheaval. Airplane highjackings and bombings were beginning to seem as commonplace as coffee in the morning. You embarked for Paris in the morning and, before you could say toute-de-suite, you’d land in Libya or some other terrorist ...
What do you get when the lines of reality start to blur in a psychosocial experiment? Really good material for a movie; such as the 2010 thriller “The Experiment” from director Paul Scheuring, starring Adrian Brody and Forest Whitaker. Beyond the initial material of a psychosocial prison experiment gone wrong, “The Experiment” has a lineage ...
Idi Amin Dada Oumee, or simply Idi Amin, was one of the most monstrous rulers to come out of Africa in the 20th century. He is known for having been absurdly self-indulgent, cruel and unwise. He was a liar, a thief (in that he grew richer while his people grew poorer) and a murderer. Uganda ...
