By Henry H. Ssali
Nov 6, 2003 - Monitor
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KAMPALA – President Yoweri Museveni launches a documentary film about Uganda today. The launching is in the United States where Mr Museveni is on a week’s working visit. Museveni left for the United States on Sunday. The Presidential Assistant on the Press, Mr Onapito Ekomoloit, told The Monitor by phone yesterday that the documentary, which was filmed in Uganda early this year with Museveni as a guide to the camera crew, is meant to exhibit the country’s tourism potential. Titled Uganda: The Presidential Tour, the documentary was shot by the US Discovery Channel in conjunction with the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa. The film is expected to boost the number of American tourists coming to Uganda. It is estimated that 74 million Americans will watch the film. “The film shows how Uganda has risen Phoenix-like, from the wreckage of the past regimes emerging once again as what Winston Churchill deemed, “the Pearl of Africa,” the statement read. “Much of the credit for this nation’s new optimism and prosperity is attributed to President Museveni and his vision.” The camera begins with a focus on Kampala City and zooms in on Queen Elizabeth and Kibaale national parks, then on to the River Nile and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. It also features the Omukama of Toro Oyo Nyimba Rukidi IV, who, at 12, is the youngest monarch in the world. Mr Leonard H. Robinson, the president of the Africa Society, is quoted in the release urging the world to watch the positive image of Africa because it has some of the world’s most breathtaking sites and diverse cultures. The film will air globally on Discovery’s international services in 2004. |
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