The oldest person among the Ismailia community in Uganda is arguably, Mrs Shirin Lalani. She was born in Masaka almost 90 years ago, and here she tells why her family went around the world. But eventually, she is back in Uganda and feeling at home.
Mrs Shirin Lalani is the oldest lady – quite likely even the oldest person – in the Ismailia community in Uganda as of April 2012. I have known her ever since she was friends and Kamariani to my mother in the Ismaili Ladies majlas in the late 1950s. Now I see her in the jamatkhana every time I go and she comes, which until recently, was everyday and now at least thrice a week. We always talk.
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