This is Henry Kyemba's memoir of being a member of Milton Obote's government in Uganda, and then - somewhat to his surprise - finding himself highly placed in Idi Amin's government after Amin ousted Obote. He also has first-hand knowledge of Amin's women, for what that's worth, and of Amin's erratic methods of governance: Kyemba wanted to close private clinics to force Uganda's few remaining doctors into full-time public service, Amin agreed when a woman he had impregnated went to a private clinic for an abortion. And his accounts of the Bloch and Luwuum cases are indisputable: he, or his informants, were there. 1126), this does serve to buttress it: what Gwyn is at pains to prove, Kyemba knows for a fact. A far less searching appraisal than David Gwyn's Idi Amin (p. But the first 'incident that shocked me' occurred within days of Amin's 1971 takeover of Uganda, and throughout Kyemba's recital of massacres and mutilations, dismay at Kyemba's numb acceptance-throwing bodies into the Nile proved 'an inefficient method of disposal'-contends with horror at the actions. Kyemba served in Amin's government-as personal aide (1971-72), Minister of Culture (1972-74) and Health (1974-77)-until, early this year, he was personally endangered by knowing too much about the headline murders of Entebbe hostage Dora Bloch and Amin-critic Archbishop Luwuum. This latest expose of Amin's terrorism, the third to appear within a month, is distinguished by its author's inside knowledge and tainted by his long collaboration with the regime he denounces.
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