But as you are a man, that possibility does not arise.”) Amin’s hunger for publicity was so great, in fact, that in 1974 he became the first dictator in history to agree to be the subject of an independent documentary film. (To Tanzanian ruler Julius Nyerere, Amin wrote: “I want you to know I love you very much, and if you had been a woman I would have considered marrying you, although your head is full of gray hairs. And he routinely sent off bizarre telegrams to other heads of state. He specialized in outrageous insults and stunts (such as ordering white businessmen to carry him on a palanquin, just as black Ugandans had once been forced to carry British colonialists). Amin, as his obituary in the New York Times put it, “reveled in the spotlight of world attention,” and he did all that he could to make sure the spotlight stayed focused on him.
He was also notoriously hungry for publicity. Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator who died last week, was notoriously brutal and capricious.
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