ABSTRACT
Following the Northern Ugandan War, which was fought between government forces and the Lord's Resistance Army, the heritage of displaced communities is now an issue for residents committees. Our aluminium silver tin can with the USAID emblem has had its top and base removed. Our USAID tin can waited south of Gulu city overnight in a queue of trucks protected by the Ugandan People's Defence Force on the southern bank of the River Nile. For some years the door was opened and closed, the doorframe entered and exited, the door padlocked and unbolted. The resident's heritage committee gave a foreign researcher and assistant a tour of the ruins and occupied homes of Pabbo IDP camp. This is a story of how a tin can became a symbol of humanitarianism and imperialism whilst photographs and memories of the visit have since been shown and told' at conferences in London, Gothenburg, and Groningen.
