Introduction: Idi Amin Dada, Man and Myth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Plates vi
4. Preface viii
5. Map xiv
6. Introduction: Idi Amin Dada, Man and Myth 1
7. 1 ‘Wrung from the Withers of the Western Nile’: Background, Birth and Youth, 1928(?)–46 24
8. 2 ‘He Comes from a Fighting Race’: Life in the King’s African Rifles, 1946(?)–59 55
9. 3 A Resistible Rise? 1959–65 91
10. 4 Amin and Obote, 1965–69 125
11. 5 ‘Martial Music’: The Build-up, the Coup and 163 the Aftermath, 1969–71 163
12. 6 A Honeymoon and Four Divorces: The First Two Years of Uganda’s Second Republic, 1971–73 202
13. 7 The Centre Cannot Hold: President Amin, 1973–76 239
14. 8 Decline and Fall: Idi Amin and Uganda, 1977–79, and After 276
15. Afterword 310
16. Notes 315
17. References 337
18. Index 345