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...going." But the only civil rights leader he names is Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality. Before his metamorphosis to Republican conservatism during the Nixon era, Innis' main accomplishment was transforming core into a black nationalist cult so extreme it tried to rally support for Idi Amin. I could barely stop giggling...
...commend White for bringing the monstrous regime in Nigeria into the public eye. Nigeria is going through the worst time in its history. Will strongman Sabi Abacha become another Idi Amin? The answer is yes, if he is allowed to continue in power. The evil called Abacha will eventually go, but the fear is that there are too few good men among Nigeria's political elite. They have turned themselves into a low-priced commodity that can be bought at cut rates. ADEKUNLE AJISEBUTU Fredericton, New Brunswick
...Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin fled Uganda in 1979 with his wife and 23 children for sanctuary in Saudi Arabia. Occasionally he dons traditional Arab garb and joins other Ugandan exiles for coffee in a downtown Jeddah hotel. A devout Muslim, Amin lives quietly in a modest villa outside the city, tending a vegetable patch and feeding his goats and chickens...
...date or go around with." Nair sought to complicate the Black or white model of race relations in America with what she calls a "hierarchy of colors," an insertion of brown in between, When Mina (Sarita Choudhury), an Indian born in Uganda but forced to leave during Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians in 1972, falls in love with Demetrius (Denzel Washington), a African American who owns his own carpet cleaning business, they test the "Third World" kinship cultivated between the black and Indian communities of Greenwood, Mississippi. And it fails--no one supports the lovers' right to be together...
...Idi Amin...