John Halani finds it difficult to talk about the powerful emotions that stir in him when he is asked about Uganda.
But the passion in his eyes speaks volumes to the connections he has to his African homeland.
Like many in British Columbia’s Ugandan community, Halani and his family were among tens of thou-sands people who were uprooted by Idi Amin’s military regime and forcibly expelled from the place they called home in 1972.
“We can always think of what may have been if we were not thrown out of Uganda . . . but we prefer to find ways to help Uganda,” said Halani, a Vancouver hotelier, whose spirit of giving ranks him as one of the most prolific philanthropists in B.C.
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