By Nazlin Rahemtulla with Margaret Fairweather
This compelling autobiography chronicles the life of Nazlin Rahemtulla, an Ismaili Muslim. Nazlin vividly depicts the origins of Ismailism, and traces her ancestry to the Gujarat in western India. The migration of her grandparents and parents to Uganda follows. She then recounts her early life in Jinja against the backdrop of turbulent Ugandan politics, the rise to power of the barbaric Idi Amin, and the devastating ouster of her family and other Asians from their country.
The re-location of Nazlin and her family to Canada; their triumphs and pitfalls in the New World; their dedication to Ismailism; Nazlin’s career in Canadian business and finance; the complexities of reclaiming her family’s Ugandan assets in the early 1990s; Nazlin’s meeting with President Museveni of Uganda; her decision about whether or not to return to East Africa to rejuvenate her father’s business; and her travels throughout the world with family and friends round out this enthralling saga.
The author, Nazlin Rahemtulla, is the Human Resources Manager for the Vancouver office of Gowlings, a national Canadian law firm. She lives in Burnaby, British Columbia. Her co-author, Margaret Fairweather, is a retired lawyer who resides in New Westminster, British Columbia. – Source: www.friesenpress.com
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Met Nazlin once with her brother Bahadur. Top notch family. They were succeesful in Unganda and, by Grace of God here too! Pround of your family.
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Nazlin very eloquently describes what it was like during the early years of Ismaili settlement in Canada. Importantly, she describes her everyday life in her communities of both Jinja and Vancouver.
In this sense, her book is a more modern Ismaili version of the journals of earlier settlers in Canada such as Catharine Parr Traill. Catharine’s books continue to be read today as an important source of information about life in early Canada. Hopefully Nazlin’s insights and observations will also be better appreciated over time.
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Nazlin very eloquently describes what it was like during the early years of Ismaili settlement in Canada. Importantly, she describes her everyday life in her communities of both Jinja and Vancouver.
In this sense, her book is a more modern Ismaili version of the journals of earlier settlers in Canada such as Catharine Parr Traill. Catharine’s books continue to be read today as an important source of information about life in early Canada. Hopefully Nazlin’s insights and observations will also be better appreciated over time.
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