By Vali Jamal, Vancouver Sun, October 28, 2009
At the end of 1972, Canadians, still euphoric over their team’s victory over the U.S.S.R. in the first-ever world hockey series, began to become aware of a group of people who styled themselves Ugandan-Asians. They were coming in as refugees, thrown out by the unpredictable president of the time Idi Amin Dada.
More than 37 years on, the term Ugandan-Asians is synonymous with wealth in the diaspora countries where they went — Canada, U.K., U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand and a host of European countries. The vice-president of Uganda wants them to come back. What more appropriate venue to make this pitch than the Aga Khan Cultural Centre in Burnaby this week, since it was in Burnaby that Ismailis and other Ugandan- Asians first settled.
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