Oryema on his music and ghost of Idi Amin

For Geoffrey Oryema, the brutal murder of his father, believed to have been sanctioned by Idi Amin’s government 39 years ago, and the eventual forced exile of his family is something that he is not ready to forgive the former regime for.

Recalling the events that culminated in the death of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, then minister of land, housing and physical planning, in February 1977, Oryema told The EastAfrican: “I remember that mid 1968, Idi Amin visited my parents at our house and just before he left, he looked at all of us. He pointed his finger at all of us and he said: ‘One day I will come and bomb this place!’”