African countries have had many leaders with great and controversial personalities. Mandela, Mobutu, Thomas Sankara, Gaddafi, Lumumba and many other have all carved their unique place in history. Yet facts and figures often have little to do with how these people are remembered and with many, the politics, myth and actuality of their lives become entangled. In a four part podcast series, Eric Mwine-Mugaju explores the narration of stories of Idi Amin in collective memory, from a comical character for children, a controversial nationalist, to a dictator and subject of so many films which also wins him sympathisers to cement his place in popular consciousness half a world and century away.