Slow Poison Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State Gothic

For Cora

<br><br>For Cora

for a community in transition

and slick advertising

and discover a disturbing map she left behind

her luck changes when her grown children run off to parts unknown

Slow Poison Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State Gothic <br><br>For CoraBy: Mahmood Mamdani Published by Harvard University Press, 2025 10 14 A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by an orgy of violence. Two years earlier, with support from the colonial powers of Great Britain and Israel, Idi Amin had forcefully cemented his rule. He soon expelled