Abdul fights England's Damar Thomas in the quarter-finals of the 90+kg category on Wednesday, knowing victory will guarantee at least bronze and make him Uganda's first Commonwealth boxing medallist since Auckland in 1990. Abdul was a military dictator and died in exile when little Aziz was a toddler. His name was Idi Amin.
Amin took charge of his homeland in a coup in 1971 - becoming the country's third president - and ran a brutal regime for eight years. It's estimated half a million people were killed and the country's entire Asian population were expelled. He married six times and fathered around 60 children. Or, rather, that's how many he acknowledged.
This week, Abdul is one of around 3,000 athletes in Glasgow. Just another face in a tracksuit, here for the Commonwealth Games. But not many others have the lineage that the super-heavyweight boxer does.
Abdul's life has been an ordinary one but now he has the chance to make a positive contribution to the reputation of Uganda. He wants the gold chain he wears around his neck to be replaced with a gold medal this week.
