Friday, November 3, 2023

Past, Present, and Future: Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada

On November 25, from 2 to 5 p.m. please join us at the Ismaili Centre Toronto for a major event exploring the Ugandan Asian refugee resettlement in Canada. The event aims to engage the audience on reflections on the resettlement initiative and embark on a discussion on the future of immigration in the twenty-first... More

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Beyond Resettlement Conference recordings now available

Following the November 2022 Beyond Resettlement: Exploring the History of the Ugandan Asian Community in Exile, we now have the session recordings available. Whether you would like to watch the sessions again, or watch them new for the first time, they are now available through the MacOdrum Library's YouTube page. Please see the videos... More

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Upcoming Event: 1972 Exodus-Uganda Musicians Reunion

In July there will be a series of reunion events held for Ugandan Musicians. For more information, please visit their events page here: https://www.ugandamusicians.com/shows A little background on the events have been provided as follows: In 1972, a Dictator named Idi Amin expelled all Asians/ Indians; we were given 90 days to leave the... More

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Carleton Presents: No New Land? With Tina Athaide, Tasneem Jamal, and Hafsa Zayyan

No New Land?  With Tina Athaide, Tasneem Jamal, and Hafsa Zayyan Hosted by Zulfikar Hirji Monday, November 14, 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre Hosted by Zulfikar Hirji (York University, Toronto) This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the expulsion of more than fifty thousand Ugandan Asians expelled from Uganda in 1972... More

Thursday, August 4, 2022

Blog Post: International Response to the Expulsion

International Response to the Expulsion by Olivia Musselwhite On August 4th, 1972, General Idi Amin announced the expulsion of the South Asian community in Uganda. Reactions immediately spread across newspapers, asking the question of where the community would go. The answer to where the Ugandan Asian refugees would resettle started with their... More

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Blog Post: The Expulsion of the South Asian Community in Uganda

The Expulsion of the South Asian Community in Uganda by Olivia Musselwhite On October 9, 1962, Uganda celebrated its independence. Political independence was achieved through the liberation of Africa from the British, but economic independence was believed to be withheld by the Asian community who controlled a significant percentage (Cosemans,... More

Friday, July 15, 2022

Blog Post: Before the Expulsion

Before the Expulsion: The History of the South Asian Community in Uganda by Olivia Musselwhite In August of 1972, General Idi Amin announced the expulsion of Uganda’s South Asian population. In accounts told by members of the Ugandan Asian community in Canada, the expulsion announcement was sudden and unexpected. By the time that the... More

Thursday, November 25, 2021

#GivingTuesday – November 30, 2021

Tuesday, November 30th is Giving Tuesday, a day to consider charitable giving. For Giving Tuesday, consider contributing to the Ugandan Asian Archive fund to help support the Beyond Resettlement conference and the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan Asian expulsion. Gifts made on Giving Tuesday will be matched dollar-for-dollar on... More

Friday, October 1, 2021

Call for Papers – Deadline Extended

The deadline has been extended to submit a paper to the conference Beyond Resettlement: Exploring the History of the Ugandan Asian Community in Exile. The conference will explore the historical context of the expulsion, Canada’s response and reception of a large number of these refugees, the larger diaspora of Ugandan Asian refugees, and the... More

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Call for Papers: Beyond Resettlement Conference

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of Asians from Uganda the conference Beyond Resettlement: Exploring the History of the Ugandan Asian Community in Exile will explore the historical context of the expulsion, Canada’s response and reception of a large number of these refugees, the larger diaspora of Ugandan Asian... More

Monday, February 1, 2021

Virtual Interviews: Ugandan Asian Oral History Project

In 1972, President and Military General of Uganda, Idi Amin, ordered for the expulsion of all Ugandans of South Asian descent.  They were given just 90 days to leave the country. The Uganda Collection held by Archives & Special Collections at Carleton University is a unique archive that provides insight into the expulsion and subsequent... More

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

New Page: The Fakirani Family – The Story of Struggle, Hardships, and a New Life

See our new feature page on the Fakirani Family and read about Hassanali and Sakinabai Fakirani's journey from Uganda to... More

Monday, July 8, 2019

“Thousands of recently discovered photographs document life in Uganda during Idi Amin’s reign”

Check out this article on the Smithsonian.com on the new exhibition The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs From the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation which is on view at the Uganda Museum in Kampala. Read the full article here.      Thumbnail photo: Uganda Broadcasting... More

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Tina Athaide: Orange for the Sunsets

Author Tina Athaide has recently published a new book called Orange for the Sunsets which is inspired by the Ugandan Asian crisis. From Quill and Quire: "Athaide does a wonderful job bringing the mounting tension, stark racial divide, political scare tactics, and brutal history of Amin’s dictatorship to light; similarities to the world today... More

Monday, May 8, 2017

Calgary: Ugandan Asian Archives Road Show, May 2017

The Carleton University Library hosted its fourth Ugandan Asian Archives road show in Calgary on Saturday, May 6th at the BMO Centre, Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Grounds. The event featured an archival exhibit and a panel discussion between Mike Molloy, former Canadian ambassador to Jordan and second in command in Kampala during the Ugandan... More

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Carleton University Honoured for Ugandan Asian Archive Portrait Series

By Elizabeth Murphy, Carleton Newsroom Tragically, it is not an unfamiliar story – refugees forced to flee a dire situation in their homeland for safety in Canada. Beginning in 1972, the president and military general of Uganda, Idi Amin, ordered the expulsion of all Ugandans of South Asian descent. Canada responded to the international... More

Friday, September 30, 2016

Carleton University Library celebrates the unveiling of the Jean and George Randall Family Study Room

On September 29, 2016, the Randall, Carrasco, and Noronha families and Carleton staff gathered at the Carleton University Library for a special room naming ceremony for the Jean and George Randall Family Study Room. In April 2016, Milton and Val Carrasco donated the Longue Pointe log book to the Uganda Collection, along with financial... More

Friday, September 23, 2016

Carleton University Honoured for Ugandan Asian Archives

On Sept. 22, 2016 Carleton University President Roseann O’Reilly Runte accepted a Canadian Premier International Education Award (CPIEA) in the School category which recognizes Carleton’s dedication to international education, global affairs, and its concerted efforts to highlight and publicize the plight of Ugandans through the... More

Friday, February 12, 2016

Toronto: The Ugandan Asian Archives Roadshow, January 2016

by Shezan Muhammedi On January 23rd 2016, over 200 people attended the “Ugandan Asian Archives Road Show” hosted by Carleton University at the S. Walter Stewart Library in Toronto. Members of the Ugandan Asian refugee community that came to Canada in the 1970s, after being expelled from their homeland by the military tyrant Idi... More

Monday, June 30, 2014

Carleton thanks the Fakirani Family for its donation to the archives

"In 1972, Hassanali and Sakinabai Fakirani along with 60,000 other Ugandan Asians were forced from their homes by Uganda’s dictator Idi Amin. Hassanali, Sakinabai and 6,000 others entered Canada as refugees. Almost 42 years later, on June 20, the Fakirani family gathered at Carleton University with friends and other members of the Ugandan Asian... More