Objectives & Scope

Objectives and Scope

• Recording, on film, the oral histories of people who volunteered to help with the reception of Asians from Uganda during the crucial early months after their arrival in the UK.

• Bringing together a wealth of period photograph, artefacts and documents into a Touring Exhibition.

• Arranging events, including four Panel Discussions featuring distinguished speakers on Ugandan Asian themes, and a National Service of Commemoration at St Paul’s Cathedral in 2023.

• Collecting images of over 300 fascinating period documents from the National Archives and other sources

• Archiving the documents, video footage and other materials at the Living Refugee Archive as a resource for future generations.

• To bring mainstream attention to the circumstances of the Uganda Expulsion and the British Ugandan Asian Community’s contribution to the fabric of modern British society

• To identify, collate and digitise official and private documents relating to the Exodus and archive them professionally for posterity in an open access online format

• To collate and digitalise photographs, videos and personal papers from the British Ugandan Asian community, both of their lives in Uganda and the early years in the UK

• To create ongoing collaborations to foster research into the Uganda Exodus, East African Migration to the UK in general, Migration and Diaspora Studies

• To foster British East African Asian co-operation and identity as a group