The Last King Of Scotland

by Giles Forden (1998):

Put away your kilts and your haggis! This book does not take place in Scotland, but in Uganda.

Nicholas Garrigan is a young

Scottish doctor who goes to work in Uganda out of a sense of adventure. He somehow becomes the personal doctor to Idi Amin, the country’s president, who becomes a brutal dictator. Amin gives himself fanciful titles, including the King of Scotland, and Garrigan must come to terms with some of Amin’s extreme actions.

The book won the 1999 Somerset Maugham award and was made into a 2006 film with James McAvoy and Forest Whitaker.