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Ua hānau ʻia ʻo Amin ma Cairo, ke keiki a kahi makua kāne ʻAigupita a he makuahine Farani (ʻo nā kauka lapaʻau ʻelua). Ua hoʻohana ʻo ia i kona wā kamaliʻi a ʻōpio ma Port Said; ma laila ʻo ia i hele ai i ke kula kiʻekiʻe Farani, a haʻalele i ka makahiki 1947 me kahi Baccalauréat. Mai ka makahiki 1947 a hiki i ka makahiki 1957, ua aʻo ʻo ia ma Paris, a loaʻa iā ia kahi diploma ma ka ʻepekema politika (1952) ma mua o kona puka ʻana i ka helu helu (1956) a me ka ʻoihana waiwai (1957). Ma kāna moʻolelo moʻolelo ʻo Itinéraire intellectuel (1990) ua kākau ʻo ia i mea e hoʻolilo ai i ka manawa nui i ka "hana kaua" hiki iā ia ke hāʻawi i kahi hana liʻiliʻi wale nō e hoʻomākaukau ai no nā hoʻokolohua kulanui. I kona hōʻea ʻana i Palika, ua komo ʻo Amin i ka ʻaoʻao Komunista Farani (PCF), akā ma hope ua hoʻokaʻawale ʻo ia iā ia iho mai ka Soviet Marxism a pili pū me nā pōʻai Maoist no kekahi manawa. Ua paʻi pū ʻo ia me nā haumāna ʻē aʻe i kahi nūpepa, í‰tudiants Anticolonialistes. I ka makahiki 1957 ua hōʻike ʻo ia i kāna thesis, i mālama ʻia e Franí§ois Perroux ma waena o nā mea ʻē aʻe, i kapa ʻia ʻo The origins of underdevelopment - capitalist accumulation on a world scale but retitled The structural effects of the international integration of precapitalist economies. ʻO kahi haʻawina hoʻonaʻauao o ka mīkini e hana ai i nā mea i kapa ʻia ʻo underdeveloped economies. Ma hope o ka pau ʻana o kāna thesis, ua hoʻi ʻo Amin i Kairo, kahi ʻo ia mai 1957 a 1960 ka luna noiʻi ma ke aupuni "Institution for Economic Management". Ma hope mai, haʻalele ʻo Amin iā Cairo, e lilo i kākāʻōlelo ma ke Kuhina Hoʻolālā ma Bamako (Mali) mai 1960 a i 1963. Ma 1963 ua hāʻawi ʻia ʻo ia i kahi hui ma ka Institut Africain de Développement í‰conomique et de Planification (IDEP). A hiki i ka makahiki 1970, ua hana ʻo ia ma laila a ʻo ia hoʻi he polopeka ma ke kulanui o Poitiers, Dakar a me Paris (o Paris VIII, Vincennes). I ka makahiki 1970 ua lilo ʻo ia i alakaʻi o ka IDEP, nāna i mālama a hiki i 1980. Ma 1980 haʻalele ʻo Amin i ka IDEP a lilo i alakaʻi o ka ʻEkolu World Forum ma Dakar.