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Photos taken by official photographers show how Ugandan dictator exploited media ‘to amplify ego and political will’
For decades he has been reviled as a simple-minded and sadistic dictator, or lampooned as a clownish thug.
Now tens of thousands of newly discovered images have shown how Idi Amin exploited cutting-edge media technology, populism and radical ideologies to maintain his bloody grip on power in the 1970s. Continue reading...