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Subject: Re: Gujarati Diasporan Perspectives

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vali jamal

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Date Posted: Sun, May 31 2009, 22:57:13-4
In reply to: Ramnik Shah 's message, "Gujarati Diasporan Perspectives" on Sun, June 03 2007, 17:29:19-4

I am doing something similar with regard to the much more sudden Aug-Oct 1972 exodus of the Asians from Uganda on the orders of Idi Amin Dada, but at a more popular level. The contents may be judged from the below paste. I should love to hear from any Ugandan Asians out there for their stories.

a.http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/new-book-by-vali-i-v-jamal-on-ugandan-asians-forthcoming-august-2009/

>The latest issue (No. 1 of 2007) of AWAAZ, a Nairobi
>cultural quarterly devoted to matters pertaining to
>the South Asian Diaspora from the perspective of the
>resident East Africa Asian population, carries my
>article "The Exodus Revisited - Harvest of a Colonial
>fruit" looking at the mass movement of Kenyan Asians
>to Britain in 1967-68. It can be accessed online at
> >href="http://www.awaaz.co.ke/home.asp">http://www.awaaz
>.co.ke/home.asp through the Contents list. The
>article opens with a reference to a previous article
>(in Issue No. 1 of 2006) entitled "They came in dhows
>and left in jets" which considered the phenomenon of
>the Asian Diaspora that has sprung out of East Africa
>in the last 30-40 years. Gujaratis are of course an
>integral and important element of both these stories,
>which thus form part of the continuum of their history.

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