Amin’s Regime Comes to life in Photo Exhibition at the Uganda Museum
There is an ongoing photographic exhibition at the Uganda Museum showcasing unpublished pictures from the Amin regime. Many of these recorded films and photo negatives had been archived at UBC for nearly 40 years.
- Exhibition. The exhibition that kicked off with a symposium brought together some of the people that worked with Amin at the Uganda Museum.
Hence Amin tried to build the media in his own way by keeping photographers around him and much of the exhibition is from the media’s point of view.
The exhibition also showcases a collection of photos describing different stages of the regime such as the expulsion of Asians, the economic war, flagging off artistes to different festivals and others show senior government officials such as Moses Ali and Nasur Abdallah who are still alive today. The exhibition brought together some of the people that served under the Idi Amin regime to talk about their experience during that time.
There was also a talk-back session with some of Amin’s family members and there will also be a session of journalists that worked in Amin’s regime plus the victims of the regime at that time.
The Ministry of Tourism Wildlife and Antiquities, Department of Museum and Monuments, said that the exhibition opened on May 18, which is also the World Museum Day and will carry on up to the 30th of November mainly to target tourists who will be interested in the history and culture of Uganda.
The exhibition was launched on Saturday and people have wondered why it had to take a lot of time for the exhibition to start since there is a wealth of history in Uganda’s archives.
The Planned exhibition
The exhibition will be at the Uganda Museum until November 30 and will later be moved to different parts of the country before heading back to the museum.
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