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Helen Epstein is Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health at Bard. She is the author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror, among other books. (January 2026)
Uganda’s Two Tyrants
Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni both confronted, in different brutal ways, the challenges of governing a postcolonial nation.
A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda
by Derek R. Peterson
Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
by Mahmood Mamdani
January 15, 2026 issue
The Iron Grip of the CFA Franc
The colonial-era currency limits the economic freedom of the African countries that use it and subjects them to continued French authority.
Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story
by Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla, translated from the French by Thomas Fazi
The CFA Franc Zone: Economic Development and the Post-Covid Recovery
by Ali Zafar
May 26, 2022 issue
The Roots of Rwanda’s Genocide
Why have so many Western historians, journalists, and human rights investigators failed to grasp why Hutu Rwandans suddenly started killing their Tutsi neighbors in April 1994?
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
by Michela Wrong
June 10, 2021 issue
The Truth About Museveni’s Crimes
Despite Western claims that he brought peace to Uganda after years of violence under his predecessors, his regime has been bloody from the start.
How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond
by Janet I. Lewis
March 11, 2021 issue
Left Behind
While poverty in America is all too real, it’s not the only reason for the epidemic of deaths of despair.
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
by Jennifer M. Silva
March 26, 2020 issue
The Highest Suicide Rate in the World
When I visited Nunavut’s capital in July, virtually every Inuit I met had lost at least one relative to suicide.
Too Many People: Contact, Disorder, Change in an Inuit Society, 1822–2015
by Willem Rasing, with a foreword by George Wenzel
The Return of the Sun: Suicide and Reclamation Among Inuit of Arctic Canada
by Michael J. Kral
October 10, 2019 issue
Rwanda: A Deathly Hush
How Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front obscured Washington’s role in a particularly bloody period of central African history
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
by Judi Rever
June 28, 2018 issue
The Mass Murder We Don’t Talk About
Judi Rever’s ‘In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front’
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
by Judi Rever
June 7, 2018 issue
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