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Slow poison : Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the making of the Ugandan state / Mahmood Mamdani.
Van Pelt - New Book Display DT433.283 .M354 2025
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- Author/Creator:
- Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uganda--Politics and government--1971-1979.
- Uganda.
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003.
- Amin, Idi.
- Uganda--Politics and government--1979-.
- Museveni, Yoweri, 1944-.
- Museveni, Yoweri.
- South Asians--Uganda--History--20th century.
- South Asians.
- Deportation--Uganda--History--20th century.
- Deportation.
- Uganda--Colonial influence.
- Physical Description:
- x, 338 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Idi Amin's crimes on behalf of Black empowerment in Uganda made him a monster in the world's eyes. Yet Yoweri Museveni, Amin's far more brutal successor, has enjoyed decades of Western support in exchange for adopting neoliberal policies. An esteemed Ugandan scholar's firsthand report, Slow Poison uncovers revealing ironies of postcolonial history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Idi Amin : the parental heritage
- Good Asian, bad Asian
- The break with Israel
- The Asian question
- Prelude to the expulsion
- The expulsion
- The regime stabilizes
- The regime explodes
- Naming the war
- Return home : working above ground
- The World Bank enters the university
- How the national resistance movement governed
- Revenge in the north
- From nationalism to neoliberalism
- The war on terror.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674299870
- 0674299876
- OCLC:
- 1511562056
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