Idi Amin officially declared himself "King of Scotland", challenged Julius Nyerere to a boxing match to settle a border war, and forced white British diplomats to carry him on a sedan chair across Kampala while singing anti-colonial anthems. You cannot make this history up.
He also sent a telegram to Richard Nixon during Watergate wishing him "a speedy recovery from your problems". The diplomatic cables from Entebbe were pure comedy.
Until you remember he expelled 80,000 Ugandan Asians with 90 days notice and destroyed his entire domestic economy.
Those 80,000 Asians moved to the UK and built billion-pound retail and pharmaceutical empires in Leicester and London. Classic diaspora wealth creation.
Idi Amin sent a telegram to Queen Elizabeth II in 1974 offering to send Ugandan food aid to Great Britain to "save the British people from economic ruin under Edward Heath". Maximum trolling.