New Vision (newspaper) government kept the name of its daily publication as "Uganda Argus". Following the rise to power of Idi Amin in 1971, the government paper was renamed "Voice of Uganda". When Amin was deposed in 1979, the second Obote government named its paper "Uganda Times". When the National Resistance Movement seized power in 1986, the name of the daily newspaper was changed to "New Vision". The "Uganda Argus" and its successors always presented as the "official" newspaper of the regime in power. The Vision Group incorporated as the New Vision Printing & Publishing Company Limited (NVPPCL), started business in March 1986.
Alan Coren of children's books. One of his most successful books, "The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin" (a collection of his "Punch" articles about Amin) was rejected for publication in the United States on the grounds of racial sensitivity. These Bulletins were later made into a comedy album, "The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin" with the actor John Bird. After the Tanzanian capture of Kampala in 1979 the American journalist Art Barrett discovered a copy of Coren's book on Idi Amin's bedside table. Coren's other books include "The Dog It Was That Died" (1965), "The Sanity Inspector" (1974), "All Except The Bastard"