This undated file photo shows Uganda's then President Idi Amin Dada. Amin, who took power by force in Uganda in 1971 and ruled until he was removed by armed groups of exiles in 1979, died in Saudi ...

Instead of exiling them to fight you from abroad like they did to Amin and Obote, buy them off at home. Unlike Obote, Museveni has all the military power firmly in his hands. No consequential ...

Made in 1974, when Amin was at the height of his power and notoriety, General Idi Amin Dada (newly reissued on video with several other early Schroeder works) is so reliant upon the participation ...

On this day in 1971, General Idi Amin Dada named himself the third president of Uganda, a week after leading the military coup that toppled the country’s second post-colonial leader, Milton Obote.

Siaya, Kenya: The man who acted as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in the popular film Rise and Fall of Idi Amin has died at the age of 70. Joseph Olita died suddenly at his rural home in ...

It would make a terrific double bill with Barbet Schroeder's mesmerizing 1974 documentary, ''General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait,'' of which Mr. Macdonald has obviously made a close and ...

As Idi Amin Dada, the charismatic, man-child-monster, Whitaker devours every scene he is in. He is the warlord as prankster; a man with an appetite, equally, for both laughter and destruction.

GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA: SELF-PORTRAITCriterion Collection, $25.49AT ONE POINT, he was the world's deadliest clown. Idi Amin was the jovial, baby-faced psych ...

Amin was hailed a hero and the 250-pound leader was nicknamed Dada, or "Big Daddy." He even was chosen as the head of the Organization of African Unity in 1975 despite some members' objections.

Siaya, Kenya: The man who acted as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in the popular film Rise and Fall of Idi Amin has died at the age of 70. Joseph Olita died suddenly at his rural home in ...

It would make a terrific double bill with Barbet Schroeder's mesmerizing 1974 documentary, ''General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait,'' of which Mr. Macdonald has obviously made a close and ...