Idi Amin: the story of Africa's icon of evil
- Submitting institution
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 191756_10637
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9780300154399
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Idi Amin: the Story of Africa's Icon of Evil is a landmark biography of this pivotally important figure in African and colonial history. The first serious book-length (368pp) biography of Amin, it is product of a decade of work and extensive and sustained archival research. This important book offers new perspectives on Amin and his contexts – in particular the importance of his long-standing connections to Britain – articulated through an innovative biographical structure.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The book is the result of a decade of research and is the first serious full-length biography of Idi Amin.
Interdisciplinary: Anthropology; Africa Studies
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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