It's 1954. A small B.O.A.C. Argonaut begins its descent over the East African

savannah. From the Porto windows you can just about make out the elephants cantering

below and the hippos bathing in the muddy waters that break up the terrain. In the

course of her visit the passenger on board this plane will have a national park

named in her honor but she's not here to take in the sights and sounds of Safari.

She has come to East Africa to project power to show her face in this one of

the tens of territories that make up the Commonwealth but despite the pomp and

ceremony that will accompany Queen Elizabeth's arrival those gathered

to greet her on the tarmac know that the times they are a change in and power

here is slipping from Britain's grass. The monarch touches down at Antebae airport

a place which years later will play host to one of the most dramatic scenes of

Idiamine's dictatorship but right now in 1954 Idiamine is miles away from

power well in one sense in another he's within touching distance of it he's a

soldier and his regiment will play host to the Queen Uganda's head of state

during her visit to the British protectorate in fact I mean will even be

singled out for commendation for his appearance on parade in decades to come as

the strong man leader of an independent Uganda I mean will delight in running

rings around the former colonial overlords because this soldier perhaps more

than anyone else stands to benefit from the turbulence that is about to shake

Uganda to its core this is part two of the Idiamine story and this is real

dictators the protectorate of Uganda has been under the heel of the British since

at least 1894 but things are changing now Uganda like neighboring Kenya is on the

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