• THE UNSEEN ARCHIVE OF IDI AMIN, photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation

THE UNSEEN ARCHIVE OF IDI AMIN, photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation

: Peterson (D.) & Vokes (R.)

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160pp., 4to., illus., hardback, Munich, 2021


A selection of photographs from the archive of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation in Kampala, discovered in 2015. The archive includes over 70,000 photographic negatives, several hundred hours of radio records, and one hundred film reels, mostly produced by official photographers and other media professionals who worked for Idi Amin’s Ministry of Information from the1950s to the mid-1980s.

Derek Petersen is Professor of History and African Studies at the University of Michigan. For the past decade he has worked with Ugandan colleagues to make government archives accessible to citizens and scholars. He lives in Ann Arbor.

Richard Vokes is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Development at the University of Western Australia. He is an editor of the Journal of Eastern Africa Studies, and former President of the Australian Anthropological Society. He lives in Perth.