Why Asians came to Uganda

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In the early 20th century, South Asians migrated to Uganda in search of a better life. Jamie Govani’s grandparents married in Gujarat, India, in the 1920s. They were excited by the economic prospects in Uganda so they moved there with their young family. Jamie told Ben Henderson how it was a wonderful place to grow up, but racial segregation lingered in the background, and things began to change after Ugandan independence in 1962. (Picture of Jamie Govani's family in Uganda in the 1950s) The following programme has been updated since its original broadcast.

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0:57.0	All this week, we're marking 50 years since Asians were expelled from Uganda.
1:01.2	Today, I'm taking you back to Massindi in Western Uganda
1:04.7	in the 1960s to explain why and how Asians settled there in the first place.
1:12.3	We could only get those the Bollywood movies.
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