Dictator Idi Amin Dada - The Ugly And Funny

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
  • Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada was the third President. He shook the world in different ways and was most infamous for his treacherous regime. In this mini-documentary I bring you the ugly and funny side of one of Africa's most talked about leaders.
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  • @cucumber623
    @cucumber623 4 года назад +226

    great doc, its the first one ive seen that didnt concentrate on how violent he was

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  4 года назад +14

      Thank you! I enjoyd making this, glad you loved it.

    • @hyacinthbucket2683
      @hyacinthbucket2683 4 года назад +39

      Yeah, it's like a documentary on Hitler without the gas chambers, or Stalin without the purges. Very informative.

    • @desu-baaerica4133
      @desu-baaerica4133 4 года назад +21

      Hyacinth Bucket you don’t have to believe anything this guys said please because they are doing their job just to make money or emotionally but the truth was reciprocal,.IDI Amine was trying to teach them the truth about the westerners how they brainwashed them and how they get out of it but it was difficult at that time and still now.

    • @tyronelawther
      @tyronelawther 4 года назад +3

      @Jeremiah M great leader more of his type required

    • @fredrickayodo2693
      @fredrickayodo2693 4 года назад +3

      Quite informative and well put. This video has shown the little known facts about Field Marshal Amin

  • @greenwarriorpermaculture1276
    @greenwarriorpermaculture1276 3 года назад +235

    I worked in Uganda in Karamoja training people in permaculture in 2010. I asked the locals about Idi Amin. They loved him. I asked why they loved him if he killed so many Ugandan people. They replied that the current leader has killed many times more. They also showed me the local hospital was the built by Idi in the 1970s and no leader has since built them anything. I loved Uganda and its people.

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  3 года назад +7

      Interesting revelation. Thanks, Green for sharing and greetings from Uganda.

    • @naijabballer234
      @naijabballer234 3 года назад +29

      If you don't bow for those slave masters, you become enemy of the world. They will use media to kill you and cripple your economy.

    • @nyangomasharon1988
      @nyangomasharon1988 3 года назад +20

      Museveni the current dictator in Uganda turnished and blackmailed Amin's name cos of his own selfish interests, he wanted to be the president. Many things said about Amin were not true, he had his bad side like any other human, but he was a Ugandan who had the people of his country at heart. Museveni is even a foreigner from Rwanda

    • @jero7
      @jero7 3 года назад +4

      @@nyangomasharon1988 . You don't know what you talking about. So to you," it's fair to say," Amin was a Sudanese. All because he looks like them. Can you prove," that M7 is a Rwandan. For your information; Rwanda came from Uganda after the collapse of the Bachwezi dynasty.

    • @pajtmvorvndeifneif
      @pajtmvorvndeifneif 3 года назад +2

      Yes..future leaders will be worse than contemporary ones...it goes on

  • @Kevin.Anthony3
    @Kevin.Anthony3 3 года назад +32

    I'll never forget my time in Uganda 2008. A very beautiful country with beautiful people.

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 Год назад +1

      Were you locked up in a quality hotel?

    • @summerbrightbright4602
      @summerbrightbright4602 Год назад

      Yes Beautiful Uganda with the Worsted Record of dictators to Rule Uganda
      God Bless Uganda and it’s People
      That one day the Current dictator would go just as idi Amine but worse

  • @oscarheck8947
    @oscarheck8947 3 года назад +22

    I met Idi Amin several times at the Kandara Palace Hotel in Jehhad (Saudi Arabia) where I lived in the early 1990s, and we just sat there and spoke at the hotel lobby. He was a very big, funny, and brilliant man, very intelligent. He was also very charismatic and seemed to be a very loving person, authentic, and he seemed to be completely honest. I am quite sure that many of the things that were said about him, especially in the news or from western or westernized sources was false or hearsay. Anyhow, I enjoyed my time with him. I cannot believe that he ate his enemies, as was reported at some point. Oscar

    • @fmbida
      @fmbida 2 года назад +1

      he was more honest than your average politician, he was more passionate about the country's growth than any we had before or after him and was not afraid to express brutality in public unlike any we've had in the nation. He meted out brutality like had been done by the colonialists; all the rest have been more subtle but killed more than he ever did

    • @Seren_ity22
      @Seren_ity22 2 года назад +3

      He was a cannibal.

    • @Brancaalice
      @Brancaalice 2 года назад

      When president is not pupped of west, they call them dictator, they make so horrific story about them in order the whole world see. IT is the way of west, they own the media, they dictate the rules, false rules.

    • @fmbida
      @fmbida 2 года назад

      @Donnell Okafor he stood at about 6ft5

  • @owenthomas3474
    @owenthomas3474 2 года назад +2

    He was and still is the ONLY AFRICAN LEADER who stood up againt the European and western bullies.Africa needs leaders like him

  • @dieseldavetrains8988
    @dieseldavetrains8988 2 года назад +5

    He was well known for storing the decapitated heads of his enemies in the kitchen deep freeze. One of the true "characters" in the realm of world leaders. Mohammad Gadaffi of Libya was another colourful leader and Ferninand Marcos of the Philippines. I just love the "Idi Amin" song. Basically I think he was a proud and patriotic man who loved his country, and wanted to give back Uganda to the Ugandans from foreigners, but at the same time, was a little "unhinged". Great documentary, much enjoyed, thank you.

  • @Iyaismother999
    @Iyaismother999 2 года назад +8

    As an native to american thank you! So much on clarifying a part of the history of this man who truely loved his country and people, the distortion of history of African leaders and it's people is so biased and one-sided here in America it's beyond understanding! Thank you again I studied a lot about this man and yours is the first documentary to uncover some of the truths which were not told to us here about his goals for Uganda and Africa in general 🙏🙏❤️

    • @mikrjiuy7805
      @mikrjiuy7805 Год назад

      His goals? Who cares what his goals were.
      Stalin and MAO had great goals as well.
      What happened was no goals met and millions dead because of left wing ideology.
      You are praising a guy who kicked all Asians out of this country in 90 days SIMPLY for being Asian. People who were there perfectly legally. And if they didn't leave, he would kill them. But Trump evil for wanting a secure border right? Such a fucking hypocrite.
      This video doesn't even get into all his murders and atrocious acts. But tell me again how orange man bad
      It's amazing that a piece of shit like you could actually see this monster, praise him and blame Americans.

  • @philipgotbored6495
    @philipgotbored6495 4 года назад +38

    It would be great to keep up with documentary's like this about Africa and the history of this great continent.

  • @uni1316
    @uni1316 4 года назад +10

    I cant finish this because his voice take me to sleep ... what a calming voice really ...

  • @chuckhibbets9466
    @chuckhibbets9466 3 года назад +3

    I met Idi by shear happinstance. I had a key to a private swimming pool spot. I was surprised one afternoon to find him swimming in the pool. I was able to get to know him and enjoyed our times together. In Jeddah.

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  3 года назад

      Wow! How fascinating. I can only imagine

  • @rastaohm4148
    @rastaohm4148 3 года назад +10

    i was born in uganda and in 1956 and left in 1960 my father was education inspector of uganda and left before idi amin took power i am indian

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  3 года назад +4

      Wow. I would be glad to hear about what life was like before. let's talk some time. My email is jonathan@ugandantourist.com. Greetings from your other home

  • @Ojayz69
    @Ojayz69 2 года назад +7

    We (my whole core family) fled Uganda for Kenya at the height of Amin's targeted killings, especially of Acholi academicians... I was 7 years old in 'primary 2' at Kintante Primary School, and even at that age some mornings in school we would hear of stories about bodies being found at a wooded area adjacent to the school and that they were victims of the 'army'. We left family and friends at Kyambogo estate where we used to reside. Now we are all Kenya citizens, but I will never forget the terror and dread of the time (mostly via my parents recollection at the time and after we fled). Lake Kyoga was another spot where the bodies of his murderous regime allegedly used to end up. Stories of fishermen finding human remains in fish they caught were common. I saw him (Amin) once or twice that I remember and he even shook my mum's hand during a function at the then Kyambogo College. I do remember though that once, as kid, I pointed towards him, as he drove by Kyambo on his vehicle, and said "There is Amin!", and my mum covered my hand with hers and quickly pulled it away saying sharply "DON'T EVER DO THAT TOWARDS HIM AGAIN!"... that was the fear-effect he had on many. I believe my dad was at that 'Doctor's brief' shown in the documentary about drunkards (😀) when he came to Mulago Hospital. I will always miss the 'good' Uganda, the country has great potential to prosper.

  • @daroldbannister7496
    @daroldbannister7496 3 года назад +9

    I proposed, at the time, to Detroit city council to bring Idi Amin in as city mayor. They didn't appreciate the suggestion as much as I did.

  • @edwardlee3571
    @edwardlee3571 4 года назад +35

    the guy that jumps in the river at 6:23 is an absolute Unit... complete balls of steel.

    • @frnesbit
      @frnesbit 3 года назад +1

      Also most likely dead.

    • @usernameluis305
      @usernameluis305 3 года назад +1

      @@frnesbit he's full African. Probably not

  • @nancyhagan7553
    @nancyhagan7553 3 года назад +3

    Amin no matter what he did was a forward thinker
    every revolution and freedom come with high price of death
    Amin did the best for his country to be owned by the Ugandans themselves
    could you imagine now the Ugandans would have been slaves in their own country
    Uganda owes him a lot of gratitude

  • @franklinnwankwoolisa5791
    @franklinnwankwoolisa5791 3 года назад +23

    Many perceived him as "a dictator" but the real answers rests with the locals. History was made during his era, lessons that transformed humanity. God bless Ugandans 🙏

  • @zero1fifty8
    @zero1fifty8 3 года назад +16

    Very well done!! I found out a lot of things I hadn't known before thank you!

  • @colinsmith2488
    @colinsmith2488 4 года назад +17

    Excellent documentary about big dadda a great leader and liberator who loved his people but was demonized by the west big respect from Ja to recognize the legacy of this great black brother

    • @peacetime15
      @peacetime15 4 года назад +3

      Are you serious? the guy killed so many innocent Ugandans and brought the economy to its kneels

    • @Africa1000
      @Africa1000 3 года назад +3

      Well spoken brother. Please don't listen to the lies pushed about him by the Western media. We must not allow them to choose our heroes.

  • @jamesalexander3530
    @jamesalexander3530 2 года назад +4

    Enjoyed your documentary very much. You showed clips of Amin I have never seen before. I've watched all the hollywood movies about him and about the raid on Entebe. Just completed viewing a PBS collection of world notorious dictators where Idi Amin Dada was one of the members of this unique flamboyant despotic club of ambitious powerful men. Good job on putting this video together. Amin may have been off his nut but he was no dummy and truly loved his country and truly desired a better future for Ugandans. Peace.

  • @IvanNammanda
    @IvanNammanda 3 года назад +10

    Perhaps this gives the world another perspective of the Late Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada. Thank you Jonathan for putting this together.

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  3 года назад

      Always a pleasure. Thanks bro

    • @IvanNammanda
      @IvanNammanda 3 года назад

      @Not Today; he was far from perfect but he loved his country jealously. He went overboard with dealing with those that had a different opinion from his but he still, he did quite some good stuff most of which are to-date very good for this nation. He did not hide his true intensions like some dictators do.... just thoughts 😂😂😂

  • @dailymoney102
    @dailymoney102 3 года назад +4

    People said is a bad man, but actually I see him differently after I watched this video, I think he loves He’s people and wanted the best for them although he made a lot of enemies! I love him and he’s a great personality in character and he left he’s name in the history book that will never be erased! RIP Amin.

  • @deathrasher-cb7yz
    @deathrasher-cb7yz 3 года назад +10

    Thanks for a good upload. I was there in uganda 2011/12. But i don't know about this great history. I have many local friends but no one tell me about this. Hope i could go back in the future after epidemic end. Uganda is a nice country and i like the peoples and their cultures. Stay safe. Greetings fm Malaysia.

  • @simonsricardopeter3
    @simonsricardopeter3 4 года назад +9

    Amin was born in Koboko to a Kakwa father and Lugbara mother. In 1946, he joined the King's African Rifles (KAR) of the British Colonial Army as a cook. He rose to the rank of lieutenant, taking part in British actions against Somali rebels in the Shifta War and then the Mau Mau rebels in Kenya. Uganda gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1962, and Amin remained in the armed forces, rising to the position of major and being appointed Commander of the Uganda Army in 1965. He became aware that Ugandan President Milton Obote was planning to arrest him for misappropriating army funds, so he launched a military coup in 1971 and declared himself President.

  • @butelezi00roman
    @butelezi00roman 3 года назад +25

    One of the non corrupt African leaders. truly loved his country

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  3 года назад

      Well, a coin certainly has a head and a tail side. For me, it was a pleasure to tell part of his untold story. Glad you found it informative.

    • @DeltaPi314
      @DeltaPi314 3 года назад +1

      Non corrupt? He bled your country's central bank dry with shopping trips to London.

  • @lakiizarungi1760
    @lakiizarungi1760 4 года назад +7

    Idi Amin prevented Israel from taking over Karamoja a place in eastern Uganda full of GOLD. That's why they call him a dictator he did not thieves to steal our minerals.

    • @desmondburnett9286
      @desmondburnett9286 4 года назад +4

      The only African president without a foreign account. That is putting country first. Ask the other presidents all over Africa about their foreign bank account

    • @hexagonmagnetics569
      @hexagonmagnetics569 2 года назад

      Last time I checked he killed anyone who challenged his authority! Am I right or wrong?

  • @obusitse3341
    @obusitse3341 4 года назад +18

    13:34 Far right my beloved first President of Botswana 🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼❤️

    • @vantablack5563
      @vantablack5563 3 года назад +1

      Sir Seretse Khama. His policies were ahead of his time and he was a good man as well!

  • @madriwilliams
    @madriwilliams 3 года назад +7

    Amazing African leader. He never compromised his integrity.

  • @hipnet1
    @hipnet1 4 года назад +118

    When the word correction appears, the beep noise is very irritating...

    • @vincentmcentee8020
      @vincentmcentee8020 4 года назад +8

      Yeah, it is beyond annoying!

    • @sanisadiq5565
      @sanisadiq5565 3 года назад +1

      I'm short of words on that, permit me to use yours 😂

    • @beezo1764
      @beezo1764 3 года назад +2

      Why tf he didnt just "Fix" his "Inaccuracies" before final production of the doc is crazy...also seems a bit on the propaganda side of History....seems like this guy yearns for a "Strongman/dictator" to rule again. FOH...Amin was a vicious ruler. ☠

    • @jonathankwizeramfitebyose
      @jonathankwizeramfitebyose 3 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣 it's important though

    • @beezo1764
      @beezo1764 3 года назад

      @@jonathankwizeramfitebyose ummm....yup

  • @iddrisusalwat3440
    @iddrisusalwat3440 3 года назад +8

    Hmm. There have been a very deal of false fabrications against Mr Amin. He was a godly man.

    • @Monsterknecht
      @Monsterknecht 5 месяцев назад

      It's disgusting how this criminal is stylized as a hero here. Never elected by the people, he murdered his way through the years of his rule. Sure, he "loves his people" - except for the hundreds of thousands who tortured his murderous gangs to death. He doesn't know anything about economics, he ruins his country, but lives in luxury. In Entebbe, he supports terrorists and then has a defenseless old woman murdered. The fact that others are just as bad does not make a mass murderer a hero.

  • @jeanramambason9588
    @jeanramambason9588 3 года назад +20

    An ugandan friend of mine told me that IDI AMIN DADA only wanted good things for Uganda.Unfortunately he was moosetrapped by political enemies who mounted tribal rivalries that caused his downfall.

  • @relaxwithcruz1834
    @relaxwithcruz1834 Год назад +1

    Someone whom doesn’t know English is he uneducated? But someone whom don’t know our African languages he is great because he speaks western languages, let’s stand as Africans let’s love our Africa , God bless Africa

  • @salifuabubakari5414
    @salifuabubakari5414 3 года назад +6

    and is painful when the enemies call our leaders who are nationalist we also call this wonderful people like that

  • @jamesochola3500
    @jamesochola3500 3 года назад +2

    Indeed he is the founder of the economic independence of Uganda!

  • @thedarkhorse100
    @thedarkhorse100 3 года назад +44

    Putting funny and his name in the same sentence is the biggest laugh of all

    • @donkeyslayer4661
      @donkeyslayer4661 3 года назад +5

      Well, He was a completely ridiculous sub human.

    • @jayav1738
      @jayav1738 3 года назад +1

      Many Indians family members destroyed by this idiot, He was so cruel human being cannot live in this country, What is he preaching about humanity, How people tolerated this joker, Many Indian females were raped and murdered, and their families use to narrate stories about this creatur, god's grace he is dead, Thete is no glory to potray him as good leader.funny indeed

    • @itsbetter9039
      @itsbetter9039 3 года назад +5

      @@jayav1738 We love him just shut up bye bye

    • @itsbetter9039
      @itsbetter9039 3 года назад +1

      @John Higgins Why not??

  • @trictrac02
    @trictrac02 3 года назад +5

    Fascinating and insightful documents. So refreshing to see our history been reflected an narrated by our own. Please keep it up.

  • @2coolking370
    @2coolking370 2 года назад +11

    A great field Marshall, We can't have any kings like him anymore.

    • @rekhasingh2275
      @rekhasingh2275 2 года назад +3

      Are you blind? He was eating humans there...

    • @Meme-bc7oy
      @Meme-bc7oy Год назад +2

      @@rekhasingh2275 😂😂just leave those who are Amin demon posession

  • @jacksoncothren5831
    @jacksoncothren5831 3 года назад +20

    He gave himself most of those medals and accolades. An award unearned is nothing more than costume jewelry. Furthermore he couldn't award himself the Victorian cross. He destroyed the nation and brutalized groups of the population. Not only that he was a coward that ran from the fate that he gave to so many others. He may have started out a decent man but the atrocities he committed erase all of that. He earned the title of despot. Also if I'm not mistaken South Africa had nuclear weapons at the time Amin was talking about attacking them. That wouldn't have gone the way he was thinking. Especially coupled with Amin's decimation of his officer core and replacing them with goat herds, his military could be called into question.

    • @ChristopherSaindon
      @ChristopherSaindon 3 года назад +1

      He certainly did.

    • @Crispvs1
      @Crispvs1 2 года назад +1

      South Africa didn't have nuclear weapons, but it did have excellent and very well equipped conventional forces, along with its own defence industry which turned out first class military hardware. The Ugandan army was well trained and professional, but without its experienced officer corps it would have fared very poorly against South Africa's experienced and well led forces.
      Then there is the issue of how Amin would have proposed to transport his army across the continent to South Africa and provide logistical support. Uganda is a land locked country with no access to the sea, and it would have taken a mightily strong spirit of collective goodwill for other African nations between them to allow the Ugandan army air passage through their airspace. With the most direct route being via Mubuto's Zaire, Zambia and Ian Smith's Rhodesia (or South African dominated Botswana), that collective spirit would, I think, have come up a bit short.

  • @hamza89945
    @hamza89945 4 года назад +26

    They’ve been spreading a lot of propaganda against this hero. Man who loved his nation. If he had a little more chance, Uganda 🇺🇬 would be a greater country today

    • @theblackpearl7035
      @theblackpearl7035 4 года назад

      😳😳😳😳😳

    • @neilnelmar8007
      @neilnelmar8007 4 года назад +7

      What a load of nonsense

    • @aksamhuda7
      @aksamhuda7 4 года назад +1

      True at least he loved his country and was not corrupt

    • @emmanuelmukisa9302
      @emmanuelmukisa9302 4 года назад

      Silm Pickens Rwanda is just a district in Uganda # that comparison is not fair

    • @bibo2728
      @bibo2728 4 года назад +3

      You clearly forgot that he killed 300 000 people plus?

  • @Rossproperty
    @Rossproperty 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful doc, watched the whole thang. At last a real ugandan citizen doing his doc 👍

  • @prashanthbk3760
    @prashanthbk3760 4 года назад +7

    Idi Amin the shrewd and strong president who thought of Uganda before anyone or anything. He really understood the meaning of Power and used it fearlessly when required to be.

  • @artbrugman8289
    @artbrugman8289 4 года назад +5

    I was 8 yrs old when I first heard about Amin. I lived in USA. And he was characterized as a madman. Later as time went on the killings and reported here was chopping people up. I like your documentary because it seems to show more than just a maniac. Not that I would have wanted to live under his rule but he was a man who wanted to help his people but ultimately was removed for his excesses. I honestly thought he had been executed back then until I saw your documentary. Well done and much success to the Ugandan people

  • @RacerX888
    @RacerX888 3 года назад +5

    When I was growing up, my buddies father was a pilot and delivered planes to Idi Amin in Uganda in the 70's. He told me a story that they were at his palace and standing at the swimming pool with Amin and the Ugandan Olympic Swimming Team. Idi Amin told my friends dad that he was the best swimmer in Uganda and to prove it, lined up with the Olympic team and they did a couple of laps of the pool, with Amin winning easily. He hopped out and smiled and said "See, I told you I was the best swimmer in Uganda". Of course, nobody mentioned that if anyone had beaten him the swimmer would have been tortured and killed immediately. My friends dad said there were numerous incidents trying to deliver planes to Uganda, including the possibility of being shot down while trying to land and having to worrying about Amin's crazy behavior all the time.

  • @1Pararegiment
    @1Pararegiment Год назад +1

    Just your lovely calm & warm voice has made me subscribe, but importantly for content & im a nature nut!.

  • @toffanful
    @toffanful 2 года назад +5

    Amin was refused his request for the " Victoria Cross," England's highest award as Amin had not been deemed qualified, so Amin had his own " Victorious Cross" made for himself.lol

  • @jamesmuhoozi5812
    @jamesmuhoozi5812 3 года назад +10

    As a Ugandan, I find it an insult terming Iddi Amin as an ugly dictator. He was a patriot who put his country first. He was funny I agree with a great sense of humour. He chased away Asians that had captured Uganda's economy. He will never be forgotten. Rest in peace CBE

    • @randybridgeman5050
      @randybridgeman5050 2 года назад

      A true patriot in any country loves his people and doesn't mercilessly butcher them. The Almighty GOD will righteously judge the "quick and the dead." Remember that.

  • @frankmccann29
    @frankmccann29 3 года назад +5

    I appreciate your film. If you can't appreciate the best qualities in the worst people, then we're doomed to repeat them I guess.

  • @mr.franklin5662
    @mr.franklin5662 3 года назад +2

    Mr. Amin isn't dictator. But the British people want him to be called but he wasn't dictator.

  • @benpaul97
    @benpaul97 4 года назад +9

    I really enjoyed that, original and different from the other types of documentaries you'd find! The history is fascinating!

  • @MarkWilliams-mj6km
    @MarkWilliams-mj6km Год назад

    Have any of the people who have commented below in favour of what the gentleman who made this videos has said about Adi Amin, saying how you shouldn’t believe all media propaganda on this man, but have you all considered that this might also be propaganda.
    Well made clip, but the truth is, we all like conspiracies & the mystery of not really knowing the truth, which this clip has well & truly provided, thank you.

  • @toffanful
    @toffanful 2 года назад +12

    Small correction: Amin was not awarded the "Victoria Cross" as he did nothing to earn it. Instead. he awarded himself a new medal, the "Victorious Cross." Amin did stuff like that.

  • @reubenkerai1892
    @reubenkerai1892 Год назад

    An nterestingly historical African-Ugandan to be specific leader that I grew up to know of back then and now Im watching this.
    Thanks for this presentation sincerely.
    ❤🙏👍🤗

  • @laurelwilliams6173
    @laurelwilliams6173 3 года назад +3

    This is great job l like when our own tell our story. The great DADA.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

  • @nicksminicabs
    @nicksminicabs 10 месяцев назад +1

    Really enjoyed this documentary, thank you Jonathan. Sending best wishes from the UK.

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  10 месяцев назад

      You’re welcome. Glad you did. Greetings back to you from Uganda

  • @tundeo7403
    @tundeo7403 4 года назад +4

    Calm n soothing background music...belies the subject considerably IMHO

  • @richkingdaverichking331
    @richkingdaverichking331 3 года назад +3

    Very educative and nicely scripted documentary. Well done. This is how we should tell the African Story.

  • @alanfrehley1373
    @alanfrehley1373 4 года назад +5

    I did a school project on Idi Amin in 1978. Did a lot of research, he was a fascinating dictator.
    He simply did not give two fucks what the world thought of him!
    Some of his anecdotes are priceless. He offered to sleep with Queen Elizabeth in her Silver Jubilee year as a "gift from Uganda"
    And he was serious!

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  4 года назад +1

      Haha. you are absolutely right. Anyway, I could access your project?

    • @alanfrehley1373
      @alanfrehley1373 4 года назад +3

      @@ahajonathan it was a school project, over 40 years ago. Long gone. Thanks for the interest though!

  • @vedic-aryan9829
    @vedic-aryan9829 3 года назад +1

    I am a indian and live in kakira I love the nature of uganda and it's people they are very nice and polite .

  • @julietL2510
    @julietL2510 4 года назад +6

    Uganda needs someone like Amini Dada now.Pls God hear our prayers.

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  4 года назад

      Juliet Nabukenya haha thanks for watching

    • @hyacinthbucket2683
      @hyacinthbucket2683 4 года назад +1

      I also pray that you end up with a leader like Amin. He is the leader you deserve.

    • @neilnelmar8007
      @neilnelmar8007 4 года назад +1

      You are stupid enough so i guess you deserve such a leader

  • @khalidking4923
    @khalidking4923 2 года назад

    A clear insightful well balanced documentary of Ida min.
    Outstanding journalism put together to make this doc.

  • @gerardbaines320
    @gerardbaines320 4 года назад +35

    A refreshingly original and unusually interesting video Jonathan! I like the neutral tone which projects both the good and the bad about Idi Amin. I may be British, but I loved the way he enjoyed winding up the British government with threats to invade or just turn up at Heathrow unannounced. His laughter was infectious and he clearly revelled in embarrassing the pompous British which, frankly, we deserved!

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  4 года назад +3

      Gerard Baines he was an interesting chap. Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your thoughts.

    • @austrobok2958
      @austrobok2958 4 года назад +4

      No, this was not neutral. His cruelty and barbarism was not discussed. Who can forget how he made a line of prisoners sitting in a long row (one behind the other) kill the guy in front of them before passing the heavy hammer to the guy behind to do it to him..!

    • @locks4
      @locks4 4 года назад +3

      Seems like African countries need leaders like Amin minus the killings...african countries are being exploited for their resources by yhe chinese and other nations

  • @presidentobonjo
    @presidentobonjo Год назад +5

    I miss my dad a true reflection of who he was rather than what the Western Media presented him to be , miss you Dad

  • @user-zx9fo8ng7l
    @user-zx9fo8ng7l 3 года назад +5

    Interesting documentary, thanks for your job. Greetings from faraway Moscow))

  • @drm675
    @drm675 4 года назад +14

    Eye opening experience.... And a Beautiful Side of This Leader....
    Loved Every bit of this Video and Thank You So much for Sharing... God Bless.
    AND RIP TO THE GREAT MAN _

    • @heniakonas9439
      @heniakonas9439 4 года назад

      @macolyis Not million but 100 - 500 thousand. Still even 1 would make him a murderer. Nothing to admire!!!

  • @ledzeppelinsucks
    @ledzeppelinsucks 3 года назад +29

    You couldn't of avoided his atrocities any better. Congrats!

    • @ledzeppelinsucks
      @ledzeppelinsucks 3 года назад +1

      @M Pulverman I certeinly agree with you on that. Based upon whatever is politically correct historical fact seems straight-up ignored if it goes against current narrative or ideology.

  • @UG4918
    @UG4918 3 года назад +2

    THIS IS ONE OF THE AFREEKA BEST ELECTED LEADERS EVER ON THE CONTINENT.....
    WE NEED LEADERS LIKE HIM

  • @melvincaramba2942
    @melvincaramba2942 4 года назад +5

    Jonathan, it is a good and informative story about the dictator late Idi Amin. They GOOD BRAVE GUYS missed him (Idi) during the Entebbe rescue. He was not included in th

  • @countyguy3506
    @countyguy3506 4 года назад +3

    I love Africa 😍 from Guyana with love

  • @nokoramahanelo1035
    @nokoramahanelo1035 4 года назад +50

    beautiful work my brother,african history told by an african...i love it

  • @geordiezinn7475
    @geordiezinn7475 4 года назад +7

    I'm from California. I love your videos. Very educational and interesting. Keep them coming brother

  • @Aristotelezz
    @Aristotelezz 4 года назад +13

    I think I've seen most documentaries about Idi Amin. The guy was very interesting. I remember very well that he in the 70ies was one of the most recognized leaders in the world, not far behind the presidents of America or the USSR. He was very charismatic and likeable but these qualities were very insidious: opponents were fed to the crocodiles. I don't know what Amin's initial intentions were. If they once were good, than power corrupts!

    • @EremasiCamaTamanisau
      @EremasiCamaTamanisau 2 года назад

      As the world has witnessed again before, during, and after the US Elections, the Media is very powerful, and in the hands of the unscrupulous, it's manipulative and extremely dangerous! Hence the general World view of Idi Amin Dada...

    • @Brancaalice
      @Brancaalice 2 года назад

      This probably was fake news about him, he was a normal leader, but west hated him, most this people hated him, did the worse in carnage. West, what Brits did for their colonies was barbaric to a civilized nation.

    • @Aristotelezz
      @Aristotelezz 2 года назад

      @@Brancaalice You must realize that Idi Amin besides been a brute narcissistic sadistic murderer also drown in superstition. Not uncommon for Africans. He believed in witchcraft, saw certain happenings as signs from supernatural, and he believed in dreams. Now you can be his best buddy but if you in his dreams get exposed as a traitor your days are numbered. You may have it very cozy together but you never know what your paranoid friend's next dream may be...

    • @ssamhenry65
      @ssamhenry65 Год назад

      Most of the bad stories about Amin ( RIP ) were sabotage by exilees in TZ.

    • @BabannanUsman
      @BabannanUsman Месяц назад

      Your opinion

  • @fredrickotieno9485
    @fredrickotieno9485 4 года назад +10

    Good job! See how different it is when the story of Africa is told by an African? Amin was a legend and a GREAT leader!

    • @ianwaldeck
      @ianwaldeck 4 года назад +2

      Are you totally deranged?

    • @Africa1000
      @Africa1000 3 года назад

      History will prove him right!

    • @beezo1764
      @beezo1764 3 года назад +1

      Yup...he's right there next to Stalin, Mussolini, & Hitler...in that order. Great Leader tho🤯

    • @Africa1000
      @Africa1000 3 года назад +1

      @@beezo1764 So says another non African. We'll choose our own heroes, thank you.

    • @beezo1764
      @beezo1764 3 года назад

      @@Africa1000 aint tryna be rude like u....but ya👍 y'all have done a great job so far😂(dont think i dont no the history of Stronger country's influencing elections around the world...including ur country.) Guess since im not "African" i cant comment on RUclips docs😂😂😂 no matter how shitty they may be😬

  • @DaveSCameron
    @DaveSCameron 4 года назад +7

    I sought out online material on Amin a while back but reached a total of 3 uploads! This is refreshing, especially as an Englishman, due to a few reasons, firstly because it's not in response to a crisis, second it's from an African and third it appears that you are altruistic and I can't see any agenda in your work which is all pervasive here so cheers and best wishes from Dave, Cambridge UK .

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron 4 года назад +1

      I must point out that it's titled the Victoria Cross and Amin was never awarded it, along with the DSO and I am sure there's many other which he was unilaterally claiming too. A character yes but tragic for Uganda and the your wider continent. I wonder if you can post which translation software you are using here too? Thanks again 😊

  • @williamcherubin2219
    @williamcherubin2219 2 года назад +1

    I’m leaning so much from all of your video I’m from Haiti man it’s seem like everything that’s going on in Africa is happening here in Haiti

    • @williamcherubin2219
      @williamcherubin2219 2 года назад

      Idi Amin said if u drink drink slow lol so u won’t get drunk lol

  • @jvreman1194
    @jvreman1194 4 года назад +41

    It does'nt matter how dictoral a person may be,,, he always leave a legacy behind, so reguardless to some of his reckless ideas/behaviorisme he showed guts by standing up to the british,, he did'nt sell his people's intregrity or his country like some of African's leaders

    • @DeltaPi314
      @DeltaPi314 3 года назад +4

      SURE! He just killed 800k of them. No biggie... he stood up to the Brits.

    • @hugolafhugolaf
      @hugolafhugolaf 2 года назад

      He killed his own people himself instead. How is that better?

  • @parimaldave9
    @parimaldave9 4 года назад +1

    Really a praiseworthy documentary and Idi Amin was not a bad person.

  • @asanori7415
    @asanori7415 3 года назад +12

    "are you not afraid of interviewing the British conquer as you are British?" 😂 I'm sorry I didn't notice his dictatorship I only noticed his humor

  • @RubieBlack
    @RubieBlack 3 года назад +1

    I Just stumble upon your YT vid. I subd, liked and hit the notification bell👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾.

  • @phenixjeanty1070
    @phenixjeanty1070 4 года назад +6

    It's very unfortunate that Kenya did not do the same as he did to deport all the foreigners

    • @Africa1000
      @Africa1000 3 года назад +2

      I agree but at least the Indians in both Kenya and Tanzania learned very quickly to toe the line. If Amin hadn't set an example they would almost certainly tried to control those economies. Today, Tanzania has one of Africa most intelligent and progressive leaders

  • @butelezi00roman
    @butelezi00roman 3 года назад +64

    You have to give it to the man, he learned English by himself, coming from a poor family he did very well for himself. Just because he did not speak English doesn't mean he was stupid or illiterate

    • @MasimbaMusodza
      @MasimbaMusodza 3 года назад +11

      There is evidence that he was illiterate. But he definitely wasn't stupid. You don't get to be president of a country by being stupid.

    • @Astronic
      @Astronic 3 года назад +5

      Isnt english and swahili the national language of Uganda? So knowing english shouldnt have been a hard thing to do?

    • @MasimbaMusodza
      @MasimbaMusodza 3 года назад +2

      @@Astronic he did not spend a lot of time in school

    • @Astronic
      @Astronic 3 года назад +3

      @@MasimbaMusodza Sure, but languages are learnt by being around people. For example if you are bilingual you often learnt your second language from being around your family. English probs was around him alot, especially by joining the english army so young?

    • @MasimbaMusodza
      @MasimbaMusodza 3 года назад +1

      @@Astronic I don't think he came from a well educated family. I learnt my second language, English, by going to school but we spoke ChiShona at home. In East Africa, Kiswahili was more of a lingua franca than English.

  • @abdulhakimhasan7673
    @abdulhakimhasan7673 3 года назад +4

    Iddi Amin smiling and waving at joyous incredible crowds at Nakivubo , Kampala with least security guards

  • @mrxanti-troll6279
    @mrxanti-troll6279 3 года назад +3

    Good video mate. I only like watching documentaries made by individuals that are from their country’s who are not biased and show facts.
    Brilliant video mate

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  3 года назад

      Thank you. Glad you found it informative

  • @philipgotbored6495
    @philipgotbored6495 4 года назад +4

    Great work bro,keep up the good work. love from Macedonia

  • @dervlamurphy1236
    @dervlamurphy1236 3 года назад +6

    This documentary is reminding me not to only believe the big popular stories about a person or a family or a government, that there's always more to explore.

  • @prossyrose1317
    @prossyrose1317 3 года назад +6

    This is well done!! I keep watching it.

  • @gilbertmexhim4480
    @gilbertmexhim4480 3 года назад +1

    Good work, keep it up,I felt as if I was in a movie theatre,I loughed all along listening to his broken english.I wish his remains could be stored in Uganda's museum for the future generation to see,and also as a tourists' attraction.Dictator Idi Amin was among the list of Ugandan's presidents. Nairobi Kenya 254

  • @deecobsinge5771
    @deecobsinge5771 2 года назад +3

    ✍️✍️IF YOU KNOW WHATS GOING ON APPARENTLY IN UGANDA, YOU PRAISE IDI AMIN 💯
    Currently dead bodies are flooding in lake Victoria and on streets. He loved our country. But Museveni is worse

  • @Godsfavoritedaughter256
    @Godsfavoritedaughter256 2 года назад +1

    He loved His Country and His people more than any other president.

  • @muanntete9743
    @muanntete9743 3 года назад +17

    Thanks for putting this together. I often wonder who choses to label one as a dictator. What are the mechanism or attributions that makes one a dictator. Because, without being judgemental, i still see current Africans leaders who are doing worse than Idi Amin but they are “good leaders” in the eyes of the West. The example of Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who has orchestrated the killing of his own people then labelled himself their saviour, orchestrated the killing of more than 10 millions people between 1994 to 2003 on his neighbouring RD Congo. The whole world has shut their eyes because he’s the friend of the West. His political opponents are all locked up in prisons, he is looting the rich minerals of the Congo for the West. Tony Blair once acted as his economical adviser. I ask, when will he be labelled a dictator? It’s a matter of time for the world to discover we are living with a worse leader after Hitler in Africa and that’s Paul Kagame of Rwanda.

    • @cherrylioness1595
      @cherrylioness1595 2 года назад

      Only God will save Africa 🙏

    • @onanysundrymule3144
      @onanysundrymule3144 5 месяцев назад

      You are deemed a 'good leader' if you let western corporations take your natural resources for free or for bottom dollar duty, but you will be labelled as a "Dictator and murderer" if you want to charge them top dollar just so you can build your country up for your own people, simple as that. That is the formula used in the West.
      You can even anticipate in advance .... Ibrahim Traore will be "a dictator", Mumuar Ghadafi was "a dictator", someone who lets US and European companies take-off with Coltan, Uranium, Gold, Oil etc etc on the cheap will be "good doggies...."..... sorry, I mean "good leaders".

  • @JagjitSingh-gh9ym
    @JagjitSingh-gh9ym 3 года назад

    I have seen him personally when he came President of Uganda he was very keen to develop uganda at that time two years of his regime was very fruit full for all asian indian community except people of israel after that it was ow full thanks

  • @DeltaPi314
    @DeltaPi314 3 года назад +19

    "despite his flaws there was a wisdom to Idi Amin"
    five minutes later
    "he didn't know that the Indians were the economic backbone of Uganda"
    Sense: -100/10000

    • @KKOPPONG
      @KKOPPONG 2 года назад +3

      Of what value is a good economy if it doesn’t benefit the citizens?
      Indians were the backbone to an economy that benefited those Indians. To Ugandans it had no value to them.

    • @Brancaalice
      @Brancaalice 2 года назад +1

      @@KKOPPONG You dont understand how economy works, cutting those that bring the economy thinking they are taking the job of the citizens is scarcity mentality, instead tryning his people to learn with them and increasing the economic progress. In economy minus not increase, the plus is what works.

    • @KKOPPONG
      @KKOPPONG 2 года назад +3

      @@Brancaalice I understand exactly what the economy is and I will repeat what good is a good economy that’s not in your hands when it’s good for others. Here’s an example for you I’m South African, under apartheid the economy was doing pretty well but it was doing well for the minority white people. When you then simply say “turn his people to learn with them” doesn’t work when those who own the economy also own the land on which economic activity is carried, own the banks of which the economy is financed, own the companies and set wages of which is the economies labour. You assume oppressors and “beneficiaries” of a corrupt unfavourable system are just simply waiting to hand back all the wealth they’ve amassed you’re extremely naive. Zimbabwe is where it is now because the whites that were in control were forced out because apart from Zimbabwe having the most educated people on the African continent they still weren’t benefiting from their economy even after liberation because “THOSE WHO OWN THE ECONOMY STILL HAD NO INCENTIVE TO RELINQUISH ANY WEALTH”. When they were forced out Zimbabwe was sanctioned to death and please tell me what’s the economic difference “to the black population” between sanctioned Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe where they were still oppressed by whites forced to live in villages, illegal for them to roam freely and live where they live, illegal for them to start corporations and build among whites, couldn’t attend schools by choice? Why care about the economy when all you can do in this thriving economy is be a farm worker with a vote? When you vote for change and your President acts mandated by those votes the country is sanctioned? Why care? This video only states that “Indians were the economy” it doesn’t show the sanctions and the economic isolation that came with driving them away. External forces interfere with the progress so regardless of what you learn, your education can’t surpass sanctions and economic sabotage.

    • @MT-ty8nn
      @MT-ty8nn Год назад

      @@KKOPPONG
      Russia has been sanctioned but is not only surviving it seems to be doing better then Europe!
      So what's your excuse now!

  • @Coco-ng5td
    @Coco-ng5td 3 года назад +1

    A fact that Amin built Mulago hospital. In spite of all the stones thrown at home, Amin loved his country immensely, h Africa very much, Unlike other leaders, Amin left with no money stashed in a bank in Switzerland

  • @orientnayan
    @orientnayan 3 года назад +11

    In India during the 90s we had a series of books with the titles, "World Famous Despots", "World Famous Genocides", "World Famous Notorious women" etc. I believe it was the "World Famous Despots" that covered a story of Idi Amin, who loved the taste of human flesh. As a kid back then I read that he once stabbed a dead body in a hospital and pulled out the knife to lick the blade. Not sure if it was true but the story could be part of the propaganda against him by the west.

  • @hkular5220
    @hkular5220 3 года назад +2

    The man who ruined Uganda, then lived in exile in Saudi Arabia until death. If he loved UG, why run away?

  • @lmakhanya6016
    @lmakhanya6016 3 года назад +6

    that correction beep sound definitely threw me off

    • @TheArtenez3
      @TheArtenez3 3 года назад

      Sounded like a nuclear war or weather alert LOL

  • @eelzedevries1540
    @eelzedevries1540 4 года назад +11

    Lots of Love from Holland ''very good doc'' thank you for sharing God Bless You

  • @sandipadhikari644
    @sandipadhikari644 4 года назад +22

    Do u know British Home secretary Prity Patel is from Uganda and her family was expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin Dada ?

    • @MrDesmond3
      @MrDesmond3 3 года назад +4

      Looks like she picked up a few tips from Idi😁

    • @cathykaruga6247
      @cathykaruga6247 3 года назад

      @@MrDesmond3 lol true that

    • @joyl4187
      @joyl4187 3 года назад

      😁She wasn't the Right color♠️....I'm guessing..ijs..

  • @samwangalakaumba2203
    @samwangalakaumba2203 3 года назад +9

    Good narration of this man we have so much about. You di not however mention the part of his killings and also rumors if his cannibalism. Any comment please.

    • @Brancaalice
      @Brancaalice 2 года назад

      He was muslin, religious dude. The west treated him as a salvage, but he was not.

  • @judet1293
    @judet1293 4 года назад +9

    You missed Paulo Muwanga who was effectively head of state before Obote II.

  • @hirakd2800
    @hirakd2800 2 года назад

    Brilliant documentary! New subscriber here! Much love...would love to learn more.

  • @lastsouljastanding8023
    @lastsouljastanding8023 4 года назад +4

    It was so fascinating to hear the man greet his pilot in fluent Luganda, not commanding him but a mutual conversation btn two fellow country men✨we are born after his downfall, So sad we never got such 1st hand information, all we got is propaganda about aGreat man tarnished for the Great work he exhibited. Like expelling the Asians who literally were milking a cow without feeding it, Just imagine our Uganda today, had he missed expelling these Asians!!!

    • @ahajonathan
      @ahajonathan  4 года назад

      You guy! That part showed the side the documentaries often do not show us. They paint him to only be a monster.

    • @chico305SIGMA
      @chico305SIGMA 4 года назад

      How would you feel if you lost everything you built in your life because of a stupid dictator you would be very upset. Always remember how would it feel if it happened to you that's how a wise man thinks. And just so you know your economy will have been a lot better if the Asians stated they're known for having high IQs.