Idi Amin Kenya to fight against Somali rebels in the Shifta War. In 1952, his brigade was deployed against the Mau Mau rebels in Kenya. He was promoted to corporal the same year, then to sergeant in 1953. In 1959, Amin was made "Afande" (warrant officer), the highest rank possible for a black African in the colonial British Army of that time. Amin returned to Uganda the same year and, in 1961, he was promoted to lieutenant, becoming one of the first two Ugandans to become commissioned officers. He was assigned to quell the cattle rustling between Uganda's Karamojong and Kenya's Turkana
Mohammad-Amin Riahi classical Persian texts such as "Mersad-al-ebad" and "Nozhat-al-majalis". During a course of 60 years he published numerous scholarly articles, a selection of which are gathered in a volume titled "Forty essays on language, literature and history of Iran". Among numerous cultural positions he held during his career, Riahi was a professor of Tehran University, the founding member and later president of the Shahnameh Foundation (1971–1979), vice-chairman of the Iranian Academy of Literature and Arts, and Iranian Minister of Education (1979). "Critical Editions of old Persian books:" "Literary and Historical research books:" "Some of Encyclopedic Articles:" Mohammad-Amin Riahi Mohammad-Amin Riahi (;