Wycliffe Kato is the author of Escape from Idi Amin’s Slaughterhouse. He spent Amin’s presidency in exile in Kenya, and later served as Uganda’s Director of Civil Aviation.
‘‘Be brave,’ she said, ‘pull yourself together. What you are about to see is worse than you ever imagined.’ She asked if I knew what Winston Churchill had called Uganda. He had called it the pearl of Africa.’
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