Having escaped the racism of Amin’s Uganda, they prospered as racial minorities in Canada
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In Britain, where most of the Uganda Asians settled, former prime minister David Cameron described them as “one of the most successful groups of immigrants to any country anywhere in history.” In 1997, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni travelled to London to face thousands of Uganda Asians directly. On the 25th anniversary of the expulsion he apologized for Amin’s expulsion, acknowledged that it set back Uganda’s economy for a generation and invited them to return. Few did. They had made good lives in the peaceable and prosperous Commonwealth, for which they remained immensely grateful.Raymond J.
Across the Atlantic, the frontrunner to be the next prime minister of the UK is Rishi Sunak, whose grandparents left India for East Africa . They then moved to Britain in the 1960s where Sunak’s father was a family doctor and his mother a pharmacist.
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