Amin wages war against Buganda's king and goes on an army recruitment drive.

In the 1970s, Amin enlisted Black Ugandans to battle against racial minorities who were said to dominate the economy and ...

Through indirect rule, Britain governed Uganda by manipulating existing hierarchies. But they also planted a dangerous seed: ...

In a sharply critical report, two research groups have raised a chilling alarm: the country’s military is no longer simply a ...

Dictatorships are autocratic governments with little constraints, categorized as authoritarian, totalitarian, military, ...

Idi Amin’s tanks stay in the barracks, and Milton Obote’s government limps on. The 1972 expulsion of over 70,000 Asians—merchants, bankers, industrialists—never happens.

When I was a sixth grader at Saint Michael School in Hudson, Mass., something life changing happened. Our class had our first layperson teacher. We were soon to discover that Miss Maura Fitzgerald (no ...

In yet another controversial take, Vice President J.D. Vance recently argued that Americans whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have “a hell of a lot more claim over America” than those who ...

Discover the ten deadliest leaders in history whose actions led to the deaths of millions. From Mao Zedong to Adolf Hitler, ...

During General Gowon’s tenure, for the first ten months there was no Federal Cabinet. Permanent Secretaries dealt directly ...