Finding home in Uganda

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In August 1972, Idi Amin publicly condemned Ugandan Asians as ‘the enemy’, enforcing a brutal policy that ordered them to leave the country within 90 days. It is estimated between 60-70,000 South Asians left Uganda in fear for their lives. On the 50th anniversary of the expulsion, BBC reporter Reha Kansara follows her mum and aunt as they return to Uganda together for the first time.

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0:00.0	This is the sound of crowd science.
0:02.4	We shoot a laser beam at this atom.
0:05.0	Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?
0:07.8	Oh, there's a wasp in there.
0:09.3	Yeah. Perhaps possibly the most disgusting thing I heard this morning.
0:13.4	But it's one of the nicest fun facts you're going to hear today.
0:16.4	So here I'm actually holding a doughnut.
0:18.3	What are you going to do with that?
0:19.3	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:24.9	You're listening to Finding Home in Uganda
0:27.1	from the BBC World Service with me, Raja Kansara.
0:38.1	In Ginger, a town three hours east of the Ugandan capital compiler,
0:42.3	I'm guiding my mum and my aunt Lily,
0:44.6	who I call Lily Masi, into the house they grew up in.
0:47.9	Wow.
0:49.9	We're here.
0:51.9	Yeah.
0:52.9	This is technically a sitting room.
0:54.9	It's the shell of its former glory and can do with a facelift.
0:58.9	The pastel yellow bungalow is turning a rust orange
1:01.9	and scuffs of mould are encroaching onto its pipework.
1:05.9	But mum and Lily Masi aren't so cosmetically concerned with it
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