Remembering Idi Amin and his bold New Year's Day travels 1989 was the last time Amin visited Africa. He is seen there in Zaire on a plane that was to send him back after Mobutu's government rejected his visit and detained him for one week. Amin's travels began on New Year's Day, when he appeared unannounced at the airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on a flight from his home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Using an assumed name and carrying a Zairean passport, Amin swept through the airport in long, pink-flowered robes. He put...