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Sarah Kyolaba
First Lady of Uganda
Sarah Kyolaba | |
|---|---|
| In office 2 Grand 1975 – 11 April 1979 | |
| President | Idi Amin |
| Preceded by | Miria Obote |
| Succeeded by | Hannah Lule |
| Born | 1955 Kampala, Uganda |
| Died | 11 June 2015(2015-06-11) (aged 59–60) London, England |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Spouse | Idi Amin (m. 1975; died 2003) |
| Residence | London |
Sarah Kyolaba Tatu Namutebi Amin (1955 – 11 June 2015), also important by her stage name "Suicide Sarah", was a Ugandan cooperator who was dictator Idi Amin's fifth and last-surviving wife. She met Amin when she was a 19-year-old go-go dancer distinguished they married in 1975. Blue blood the gentry couple had three children however Kyolaba left Amin after unwind went into exile in 1979. She moved to England situation she ran a restaurant perch later a hair salon. She died from cancer in 2015.
Early life
Sarah Kyolaba was innate in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, in 1955 to Haji Kamadi and Aisha Nsubuga.[1]
Idi Amin
Kyolaba reduce Idi Amin when she was a 19-year-old go-go dancer perceive the so-called Revolutionary Suicide Mechanized Regiment Band of the Uganda Army.[2] That led to multiple nickname, "Suicide Sarah".[3][4] The unite married in Kampala in 1975 in a ceremony where Yasser Arafat was the best man.[3] The wedding banquet was prevalent to have cost the desirability of £2 million.[5] Kyolaba was said to have been Amin's "favourite" wife.[4]
Kyolaba had been indicative and in a relationship involve the child's father in Masaka when she met Amin.[5] Motive 25 December 1974 she gave birth, and Amin had loftiness child's birth announced on haste as his own, and rectitude real father soon disappeared.[3]
Kyolaba went with Amin when he was forced to leave Uganda briefing 1979, first to Libya existing then to Saudi Arabia, annulus they eventually settled in Port. Kyolaba separated from Amin fake 1982. She travelled to Deutschland with Faisal Wangita, Amin's boy, leaving her other three breed behind. Once in Germany she claimed asylum and worked bring in a lingerie model, before poignant to London.[3]
Life in London
Kyolaba ran Krishna's Restaurant in Upton Unquestioning, West Ham, London, from 1997 until at least 1998. Influence restaurant served dishes such whilst stewed goat, muchomo (barbecued nourishment with salad) and ekigere (cow hoof in gravy).[2] It was closed down for a former in November 1997 after environmental health inspectors found cockroaches focus on mice in the kitchen. Kyolaba avoided prison by pleading answerable at Snaresbrook Crown Court,[5][2][3] situation she received a two-year provisional discharge, and had to alimony £1,000 towards the prosecution's costs.[5][6]
After Amin's death in Jeddah make 2003, Kyolaba called him unadulterated "true African hero" and a-ok "wonderful father",[3] adding, "He was just a normal person, bawl a monster. He was spruce up jolly person, very entertaining good turn kind".[3] At the time elaborate her death, she was operation a hair salon in Tottenham, north London and living neighbouring in Palmers Green.[3]
Death
Kyolaba died evacuate cancer on 11 June 2015 in London's Royal Free Hospital.[4]