Msomi Podcast

The Unseen Archives of Idi Amin


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From around 70,000 negatives discovered from the archives of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), the images in this remarkable collection were taken by Amin’s personal photographers between the 1950s and mid-1980s. Professor Derek Peterson Derek Petersen is Professor of History, African and Afroamerican Studies at the University of Michigan and Abiti Nelson the curator of ethnography and history at Uganda Museum  talk to journalist Eric Mwine-Mugaju and gives fascinating insights into the ways Amin hoped to promote Uganda through a range of previously unseen photos.

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Msomi PodcastBy Eric Mwine-Mugaju