Profesa Mahmood Mamdani mwana wa Dar es Salaam mwenye mguso pia Uganda, South Africa na Marekani alipozindua kitabu chake nyumbani
30 March 2026
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Mahmood Mamdani's "Slow Poison" Book Launch in Dar es salaam, Tanzania
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-jC_OVRwkThis is a recap of the Dar es Salaam Tanzania LAUNCH of Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni and the Making of the Ugandan State by Professor MAHMOOD MAMDANI.
Feature a conversation with the author moderated by JENERALI ULIMWENGU, followed by Q & A :
Both leaders, Mamdani says, were propped by Western powers and turned out to be slow poison to Uganda – with Museveni becoming worse.
On page 233 of the book, Mamdani cites three examples of Amin and Museveni’s “slow poison.”
Mamdani - “And when he brings the body back, he gives a speech at the funeral where he says, ‘We bury here not just the Kabaka, we also bury the kingdoms. Uganda will not will not have kingdoms. Uganda will be a republic.”
Mamdani also credited Amin with introducing radical land reforms inspired by developments in Ethiopia.
“The Ethiopian Revolution had taken place around this time, and he tells the cabinet, ‘We have to learn something from the Ethiopian Revolution. One thing we have to learn is land reform. We have to give the land to the tiller,” Mamdani said.
“Buganda, especially, was that part of the country with miles of land given by the British to the Buganda aristocracy who became landlords. Amin conferred the land to the tenants.”
Mamdani further described Amin’s commission of inquiry into the killing of civilians by soldiers as one of the earliest truth commissions in modern history.
"When Amin came to power, he passed a decree which gave soldiers the right to arrest anybody without a search warrant purely on suspicion,” he said.
“The result was that soldiers indeed began to arrest, but arrest for private greed. The police then came to Amin and said civic peace is disintegrating and there is no way of ensuring the country will remain peaceful.”
According to Mamdani, Idi Amin responded by appointing a commission of inquiry headed by a Pakistani judge who had tried Abu Mayanja under the Obote government.
Source : Mkuki na Nyota
30 March 2026
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Mahmood Mamdani's "Slow Poison" Book Launch in Dar es salaam, Tanzania
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-jC_OVRwkThis is a recap of the Dar es Salaam Tanzania LAUNCH of Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni and the Making of the Ugandan State by Professor MAHMOOD MAMDANI.
Feature a conversation with the author moderated by JENERALI ULIMWENGU, followed by Q & A :
Both leaders, Mamdani says, were propped by Western powers and turned out to be slow poison to Uganda – with Museveni becoming worse.
On page 233 of the book, Mamdani cites three examples of Amin and Museveni’s “slow poison.”
Mamdani - “And when he brings the body back, he gives a speech at the funeral where he says, ‘We bury here not just the Kabaka, we also bury the kingdoms. Uganda will not will not have kingdoms. Uganda will be a republic.”
Mamdani also credited Amin with introducing radical land reforms inspired by developments in Ethiopia.
“The Ethiopian Revolution had taken place around this time, and he tells the cabinet, ‘We have to learn something from the Ethiopian Revolution. One thing we have to learn is land reform. We have to give the land to the tiller,” Mamdani said.
“Buganda, especially, was that part of the country with miles of land given by the British to the Buganda aristocracy who became landlords. Amin conferred the land to the tenants.”
Mamdani further described Amin’s commission of inquiry into the killing of civilians by soldiers as one of the earliest truth commissions in modern history.
"When Amin came to power, he passed a decree which gave soldiers the right to arrest anybody without a search warrant purely on suspicion,” he said.
“The result was that soldiers indeed began to arrest, but arrest for private greed. The police then came to Amin and said civic peace is disintegrating and there is no way of ensuring the country will remain peaceful.”
According to Mamdani, Idi Amin responded by appointing a commission of inquiry headed by a Pakistani judge who had tried Abu Mayanja under the Obote government.
Source : Mkuki na Nyota