I am very pleased to forward this press article on the honour bestowed upon Hon Sherali Bandali Jaffer, MP, by the government of Uganda. It’s in the first place an honour to him for his long service in all walks of life in Uganda, but it is also an honour to the whole Uganda Asian community, here and there. I am beginning to sense that the present Uganda government is reaching out to us Asians in many ways. Just a month ago H.E. the President endorsed the book below as a “national asset”, which again I see as a recognition of our past, present and future role in Uganda.
Needless to say the Jaffer family are covered in my book in three glorious generations: Patriarch Bandali Jaffer, who was one of the early itinerant traders collecting cotton from farmers on his bike and cart; Honourable SBJ himself as an MP and benefactor of several Muslim schools; and daughter Mobina as the youngest (until then) senator in the Canadian government as the senator for British Columbia.
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Vali Jamal, BA Cambridge, PhD Stanford, ILO economist 1976-2001. Kampala, Uganda. Author: Uganda Asians: Then and Now, Here and There, We Contributed, We Contribute (1250 pp+-, 5.2 kg, $72.50), forthcoming Sep 2012 in three parts. “The book is a national asset in Uganda’s Golden Jubilee year” – HE President Museveni. All related Vali Jamal: https://ismailimail.wordpress.com/tag/vali-jamal/
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