Mahmood Mamdani has written a startling book. Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” ...

In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years. Idi Amin in Kampala, 1975. As a wandering freelance reporter in West Africa at the end of ...