In an often chilling new documentary, the chefs of brutal leaders from Idi Amin to Saddam Hussein, talk about their unusual lives behind the scenes
Kim Jong-il loved pepperoni pizza. Saddam Hussein co…
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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran’s rise, colonialism, and US political change ○
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Mahmood Mamdani on exile from Uganda, Idi Amin, and what Zohran’s rise says about politics in the US.
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…
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…
Christmas Karma review – Dickens adaptation has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog ⊖
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Gurinder Chadha’s leaden update of the hardy seasonal chestnut with Kunal Nayyar is joyless and nausea-inducing
Keen though I always am to indulge any and every new riff on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol…
7 months ago
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked ⊕
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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…
15 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 ○
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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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