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11 days ago

Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?

The anthropologist and father of New York’s mayor-elect offers a revisionist view of modern Ugandan history

Children of Ugandan Indians are having a bit of a moment. Electropop boasts Charlie XCX; sta…

19 days ago

Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’

After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign

The night before Mahmood Mamdani was expel…

39 days ago

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked

Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’

The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winn…

9 months ago

The Wire's Clarke Peters hits out at colour-blind casting in factual dramas and argues it would be 'absurd' for Dominic West to play Ugandan dictator Idi Amin

The Wire star Clarke Peters has slammed colour-blind casting in factual dramas, arguing it would be 'absurd' if Dominic West portrayed Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

Novelist Eimear McBride: studying method acting taught me how to write

Three years at the notorious Drama Centre London helped the author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing understand how to create a character from the inside out

Making a person is no mean feat – especiall…

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