President Idi Amin would not resist the decolonisation wave that was sweeping across the African continent in the 1970s that sought to insist on dignity, self-respect, pride and confidence among the ...

The plane carrying 193 passengers circled down over London Stansted Airport, where a cluster of journalists were waiting to document its arrival. Stepping onto the tarmac under typically gray English ...

Fifty years ago – in early August 1972 – President Idi Amin summarily decreed the expulsion of Uganda’s “Asian” (that is, Indian and Pakistani) community. Over 50,000 people were given a scant three ...

Fifty years ago – in early August 1972 – President Idi Amin summarily decreed the expulsion of Uganda's“Asian” (that is, Indian and Pakistani) community. Over 50,000 people were given a scant three ...

A Ugandan Asian family who set up one of the UK's first sari department stores has been recalling their experiences on the 50th anniversary of their expulsion by dictator Idi Amin. Nila Raja remembers ...

In 1966, the writer was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence. It shaped his thinking about travel writing’s imperative to bear witness. By Paul Theroux Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ...

Amin Visram remembers the joy of his childhood in Uganda: games of marbles, badminton and the laughter of his friends. And he remembers seeing his breath condensing in the cold air when he and his ...