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Uganda: Slow Poison - Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State

AllAfrica · 27 Oct 2026

[allAfrica] Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan StateBy Mahmood MamdaniReview by Uma Dhupelia-MesthrieWits University Press, 2025, 338 pp., R380

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