A comical character for children or Buffoon?

It seems to me that no African leader has generated as much intrigue as Idi Amin Dada, the self-styled conqueror of the British Empire and Ugandan dictator. Amin was cruel and unusual, but not uniquely so. So why has he earned a uniquely infamous status in the horrible dictators’ hall of fame? and why did our parents narrate his story as harmless rather than using scare us? Hit play to find out.