Sarah Kyolaba Tatu Namutebi Amin (1955 – 11 June 2015), also known by her stage name "Suicide Sarah", was a Ugandan dancer who was dictator Idi Amin's fifth and last-surviving wife. She met Amin when she was a 19-year-old go-go dancer and they married in 1975. The couple had three children but Kyolaba left Amin after he went into exile in 1979. She moved to England where she ran a restaurant and later a hair salon. She died from cancer in 2015.
Kyolaba had been pregnant and in a relationship with the child's father in Masaka when she met Amin.[5] On 25 December 1974 she gave birth, and Amin had the child's birth announced on television as his own, and the real father soon disappeared.[3]
Kyolaba went with Amin when he was forced to leave Uganda in 1979, first to Libya and then to Saudi Arabia, where they eventually settled in Jeddah. Kyolaba separated from Amin in 1982. She travelled to Germany with Faisal Wangita, Amin's son, leaving her other three children behind. Once in Germany she claimed asylum and worked as a lingerie model, before moving to London.[3]
Life in Londonedit
Kyolaba ran Krishna's Restaurant in Upton Road, West Ham, London, from 1997 until at least 1998. The restaurant served dishes such as stewed goat, muchomo (barbecued meat with salad) and ekigere (cow hoof in gravy).[2] It was closed down for a time in November 1997 after environmental health inspectors found cockroaches and mice in the kitchen. Kyolaba avoided prison by pleading guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court,[5][2][3] where she received a two-year conditional discharge, and had to pay £1,000 towards the prosecution's costs.[5][6]
After Amin's death in Jeddah in 2003, Kyolaba called him a "true African hero" and a "wonderful father",[3] adding, "He was just a normal person, not a monster. He was a jolly person, very entertaining and kind".[3] At the time of her death, she was running a hair salon in Tottenham, north London and living nearby in Palmers Green.[3]
^Magembe, Muwonge (24 July 2015). "The untold story of Sarah Kyolaba Amin". New Vision. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
^ abc"Hiding away in an east London caf". Mail & Guardian. 3 July 1998. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
^ abcdefghNadia, Khomami (16 June 2015). "Idi Amin widow's life of tumult ends quietly in north London". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
^ abcNakajubi, Gloria (15 June 2015). "Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's widow Sarah Kyolaba dies in the UK aged 59". The Independent. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
^ abcd"Sarah Amin Is Dead". Red Pepper. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
^"Amin's wife escapes jail for cockroach café". BBC. 23 February 1999. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
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