![]() The expulsion left thousands of families devastated, with approximately 80,000 Ugandan Asians impacted by the decree. They had to leave their homes, businesses, friends and family and start again with nothing. (Uganda) was the only country they had known. “The story of the expulsion always fascinated me. ![]() “If not here, would it be Kenya, Tanzania or India? But I don’t speak Swahili and I didn’t visit India until I was in my 20s,” she told Eastern Eye. It sparked the question – where would that home be? During her schooldays, the British-born writer was told to “go back to her own country” by some of her peers. Shah’s grandparents hailed from east Africa (Kenya and Tanzania) and she often wondered what it would be like to leave a country and start again. It follows an Asian family – mother Jaya, brothers Vijay and Pran and newly-wed Asha – as they prepare to flee for the UK, having been given only 90 days to leave their home. ![]() Neema Shah’s debut novel Kololo Hill is a fictional account about the expulsion of Asians from Uganda by president Idi Amin in 1972. ![]() ![]() A NEW book exploring the expulsion of Uganda Asians in the 1970s was inspired by the “terrifying” prospect of being forced to leave your home country for another, its author has revealed. ![]()
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