Slow Poison Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State: Mahmood Mamdani
ISBN: 9781776149834
Binding : Softcover
NO of pages: 338
Description: Slow Poison is an authoritative and personal account of the tragic fate of Uganda and the unravelling of its struggle for decolonialization under the rule of Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni. Mamdani casts a learned and wary eye on the two leaders and the global heavyweights that exploited and manipulated Uganda before and after its independence.
In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by ‘an orgy of violence’ under Idi Amin. Amin was followed by Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled for nearly four decades.
Slow Poison is Mamdani’s firsthand account of the tragic unraveling of his country’s struggle for decolonialization. A witness to East Africa’s intricate power plays and one of the most insightful political philosophers of his generation, Mamdani casts a learned and wary eye on Amin, internationally depicted as a buffoon, the radical scholar Museveni, and the global heavyweights that exploited and manipulated Uganda before and after its independence.
Description
ISBN: 9781776149834
Binding : Softcover
NO of pages: 338
Description: Slow Poison is an authoritative and personal account of the tragic fate of Uganda and the unravelling of its struggle for decolonialization under the rule of Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni. Mamdani casts a learned and wary eye on the two leaders and the global heavyweights that exploited and manipulated Uganda before and after its independence.
In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by ‘an orgy of violence’ under Idi Amin. Amin was followed by Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled for nearly four decades.
Slow Poison is Mamdani’s firsthand account of the tragic unraveling of his country’s struggle for decolonialization. A witness to East Africa’s intricate power plays and one of the most insightful political philosophers of his generation, Mamdani casts a learned and wary eye on Amin, internationally depicted as a buffoon, the radical scholar Museveni, and the global heavyweights that exploited and manipulated Uganda before and after its independence.
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