It’s fifty years since Uganda’s President Idi Amin decreed the expulsion of Uganda’s Asian community – and our author Derek Peterson has written about those events in August 1972, and the Economic War, for @theconversationdotcom In the article he says: 'Over 50,000 people were given a scant three months to tie up their affairs and leave the country. For months, European and American media carried reports that dramatised the human misery of Uganda’s Asians. All the attention paid to the plight of the Asian community has made it hard to see the much wider, much more violent history of Amin’s economic programme.’ Visit the 🔗 in bio to read the full article, and to find out more about Peterson’s book, The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin – also written by Richard Vokes – which features a trove of recently discovered photographs, giving the opportunity to take a closer look at Idi Amin’s dictatorship and its impact on Ugandan history. 📷 : 1. Minister of Commerce Capt. Noah Mohammed inspects smuggled goods at railway station, Kampala, 13 June 1977 © Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, 2021. 2. Cover of The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin