Ask most immigrants why they came to Canada, and they’ll tell you it was to live a life of more opportunity for themselves and their children.
Shairose Shamji-Karmali, owner of Burnaby’s Safari Snack House and Grill, was one of those children, and now she says her experience may hold some of the answers to the questions immigrant parents have as they settle their families here now.
She was born in Kampala, Uganda to second-generation immigrants from Gujarat, India.
But when Idi Amin’s ruthless regime began targeting non-ethnic Ugandans, the family had to flee.
The only memory Shamji-Karmali has of Uganda is her mother having to turn her gold chain over to government soldiers as a bribe in exchange for them being allowed to use the airport bathroom before they fled.
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