Exiles: The Ugandan Asian Story Learning resources

About the authors Bill Bolloten is an independent education consultant. He specialises in work on equality, diversity, migration and community cohesion. Suman Bhuchar has been involved in the Exiles Project as a researcher, writer, interviewer and production supervisor for the digital stories. The Exiles Project, Project manager: Santhosh Chandran Project coordinator: Jayesh Amin Heritage consultant: Philip Kiberd Design: Tim Hughes

http://asiancentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Exiles-learning-pack-web1.pdf

Second generation Madhvani

Manubhai (on the right) with his brother, Jayant . The two Madhvanis grew their father’s businesses and handed them over bigger and better to a third generation, despite turbulent times.

In Summary

These stories of Manubhai Madhvani who died in London in May 2011, are excerpts from Vali Jamal’s book Uganda Asians: Then and now, Here and There, We contributed, We contribute. The interview was done at Kakira on June 19, 2008 with Eng Yashwant D. Sidpra.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/Second-generation-madhvani/-/688342/1521496/-/fyt02sz/-/index.html

Salma Mughal 

With the expulsion of Ugandan Asians in 1972 came separation of family and friends. I found this letter addressed to my late father, dated 24th October 1972. 
Stamped Newbury, 24th October 1972.

Now, that is nostalgia, imagine your own parents, your loved ones, and small children, young, old all forcibly displaced with the very clothes that you, they wore and the devastation that brought to the elders on the forceful burden that was bestowed upon them at their age, all lost.

Elders who had spent decades building what they had with their blood sweat and tears for the very loving families that stood in front of them with nothing, nothing at all, as all was left behind, taken away from them, all they had was each other.

Social network, all were so tightly knitted as one household, that experience that still echoes at social gathering amongst us all to this very day, all school friends that were like a family to us all, some parted never to be seen ever again, all the sentimental landscapes, the food, the air that was so pure and different even the aroma of the sand when it rained lingers in our thoughts, how each and every one of us must have been dichotomized from the land that was one's precious ancestral home, how each one of us was possibly dissected in their very own psychological way only to find in a land far away that we only read about.

A land that had different cultural, religion, environment, traditions, climate, a land that some folks seen us all as a threat to their livelihood, threat towards their loved ones, prejudiced, yet all we were “a people without a land, with some belongings, fragmented in mind and soul, beings that had been abandoned with families... for elders to now start life all over again with their loved ones providing shelter, feeding, educating, nursing them, to consoling them, comforting, reassuring that all will be alright etc providing, supporting us in the best possible way that they could.. BLESS THEM FOR THEY DID NOT DESERVE ALL THAT!

Life is such…

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The History of Fort Portal (Fort Gerry)

It is the only town in Uganda with an English name “Fort Portal”, and the town was named after the British Consul General of Zanzibar, Sir Gerald Portal, who came to Uganda in 1890s to formalize British protectorate ship over Uganda.

Fort portal is perhaps the most attractive town in Uganda, its situated amid lush rolling hillsides swathed in near tea plantations and clouds permitting / offering excellent views across to the glacial peaks of the Rwenzori Mountains to the west, the town centre has seen a great deal of renovation since the early 1990’s, including plenty of new hotels and restaurants, and what with the recent resurfacing of its internal roads, it is barely recognizable from the run down Fort portal hole of a few years back.

http://fortportal-town.com/the-history/

https://theeye.co.ug/fort-portal-infomation/

More Links on Uganda:

The Most Evil Men in History: Idi Amin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyaTWKv44Hs

Uganda Asian Refugee Movement 1972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQPKNhxymY

Ugandan Indian Migration (1970s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrY-vl8_Vak

Leicester: Ugandan Asians - 40 years on (Part 1, 2 & 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Pc19cg-d4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVz295UWzU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVv0IRyu2TI

Uganda 40 Yrs on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4abS0PhRzQ

Return to Uganda - 06 Aug 07 - Part 1 & 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3DlMY5JIk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6_MyXrAYKU

Rana's Reflections, Ruminations & Recollections

http://www.josephclan.com/tjblog/?p=1859

Other Links:

http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/idi-amin-legendary-ugandan-dictator-was.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/2399549.stm

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fd23a2ca-ecb0-11e1-81f4-00144feab49a.html#axzz34p49qDZq

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19549567

http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/suffolk/article_2.shtml

http://southasianlitfest.com/event/ugandan-asian-exodus/

http://www.ibtimes.com/uganda-forty-years-after-idi-amin-expelled-asians-739228

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/635863-saleh-woos-back-asians-expelled-by-amin-in-1972.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/stories/2004/03/views-on-refugees.shtml

http://www.biyokulule.com/view_content.php?articleid=5270

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2012/40th-anniversary-of-ugandan-asian-refugeee-camp

http://www.thepromota.co.uk/leicester_mercury-image-leicester_mercury-thursday-december-02-2010-0930-3-comments-share-bookmark-with-what-is-social-media-facebook-digg-reddit-delicious-stum/

http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/Ugandan-Asians-Then-and-Now--Coming-to-East-Africa/-/691232/1506392/-/jfc8epz/-/index.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4371457.stm

http://www.itv.com/news/2012-08-09/proud-to-be-british-tonight-itv1-at-7-30pm/