- A -. acculturation. the process by which a culture is transformed due to the massive adoption of cultural traits from another society--it is what happens to a culture when alien traits diffuse in on a large scale and substantially replace traditional cultural patterns.
Idi Amin. Idi Amin Dada (17 August 1925 â 16 August 2003) was a repressive dictator of the African country of Uganda. The President of Tanzania at the time, Julius Nyerere, invaded Uganda to save the country from Idi Amin. Amin is famous for sending all Asians, mainly from India and Pakistan, out of Uganda.
Amin seized power in a coup. Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has died of multiple organ failure in hospital in Saudi Arabia. Amin, who was variously described as 78 or 80 years old, had been in a coma at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah since 18 July. He was forced from power in Uganda in 1979 by Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles, after one of the bloodiest rules in African history.