MARK STEYN's obituary for Idi Amin, He will not be Missed" is not be to be missed. The best part:

The defining image of him is a 1975 photograph of his arrival at a reception for ministers from the Organisation for African Unity: as the band plays Colonel Bogey, His Excellency is borne aloft in a sedan chair balanced with some difficulty on the shoulders of four spindly Englishmen from Kampala's business community, while another humbled honky walks behind holding the parasol. It's the precise negative of 1, 000 colonial daguerreotypes from Victorian illustrated weeklies. When it came to the white man's burden, the British could talk the talk. But that night the 300 lb Amin made them walk the walk.

[ http://php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/w/03.07.29a.htm ]

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