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Regarding this revert. To clarify, the "massive dump" was referring to the 50 or so edits that one user performed across numerous different articles. After checking 20+ of them and finding all 20 to be unsourced with no matching information in the body of the article, I mass reverted them all. User had previously been warned about adding unsourced information so it was appropriate. The one you pointed out does appear to be correct s no objection to you reverting my revert.... Just wanted to explain. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:10, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Indy! I just wanted to ask whether you have already read Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, a book whose existence I have just discovered. It's written by Mahmood Mamdani, renowned academic, and -based on the reviews I have read- seems to offer a shockingly revisionist view of Amin which completely runs counter to almost every single book, article, and witness report I have read so far (aside of Jaffar Amin's interviews). Frankly, I'm really intrigued. Does Mamdani really claim that Amin tried to forge a unitary Ugandan identity (while purging minority groups inside his military every few months)? I'm especially fascinated by this as Mamdani is generally described as being an expert who has deeply researched this topic. Yet this review by a Ugandan acdemic (albeit in the state newspaper) also offers some strong criticism of Slow Poison. Did you have a chance to read the book yet? I'd love to hear your opinion if you did. Applodion (talk) 22:03, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Applodion: I think I had vaguely heard of this work a few months ago when I looked up Mahmood Mamdami after his son was in the news a lot for becoming mayor of New York City and the media talked about him being the son of a Ugandan academic. Sure enough, my Wikipedia work had made me know of this guy's father—who most of my fellow Americans have never heard of—before I knew of his politically-inclined posterity. That said, the only work of Mamdami's I'm especially familiar with is his 2001 book When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda which I've used for several articles. The most recent scholarly work I've read on Amin is Mark Leopold's 2020 biography of him, which in no substantive way defends Amin's politics that I recall. I first became aware of this alleged new thesis of Mamdami's at apparently the same moment you did, when that edit was made to the Amin article this morning.

That said, Amin/his regime has always had its defenders (as the article on him notes and if you remember this conversation we had years ago), though these defenses seemed to emanate either from sentimentalism or comparisons to other political regimes which the given author despised more, whether that be Obote or Museveni. I agree that for Mamdami to take on this argument is a major development, especially considering that he was subject to the 1973 expulsion. As far as how that thesis could apply as far as what we already know about Amin's military rule, I could see it as pragmatic of Amin to emphasize national identity as a broad unifying factor (as many African dictators have done), to look good for the African international community, as well as to tamper down some of the ethnic gripes and bickering about his actual base of political and military support. If I remember correctly, the Nubians who proliferated his army were often viewed as outsiders, even foreigners, by non-Nubian Ugandans. Convincing the nation to reject such divisions and imbalances as superficial—even if not actually abandoning the internal ethnic makeup of one's political machine—in favor of a "we're all equally Ugandans" approach would be rather politically convenient. -Indy beetle (talk) 03:41, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Indeed it would be convenient; several sources describe Amin's efforts to reduce tribal tensions, and Holger Bernt Hansen (Uganda in the 1970s: a decade of paradoxes and ambiguities) offered a -at least in my opinion- convincing explanation on the overall way Amin handled minority groups. Yet as I understand it, Mamdami appears to consider these policies a genuine and even successful(!) effort by Amin to unify Uganda - the extent of dubbing him "Father of the Nation" in the book, and claiming that Museveni undid(!!) Amin's progress toward unification. Either way, thanks for your response. Perhaps I shall try to get my hands on Mamdami's book; though I doubt the value of its analysis (at least based on the reviews), it might still offer interesting and useful information. Applodion (talk) 08:12, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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When I read the article Janice H. Faulkner, I saw you add a source about newspaper Morning Star. But I don't know which newspaper it is. Please tell me more information. 金色黎明 (talk) 09:30, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@金色黎明: That would be one of the predecessor papers of what is now the Star-News of Wilmington, North Carolina. In the 1990s the Morning Star was still a separate paper, but it was combined in the 2000s with the Wilmington News to become the present publication. -Indy beetle (talk) 16:02, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 金色黎明 (talk) 16:10, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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