Refugee experience reinforced the Ismaili values of Education, hard work and giving back to community
By Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun – On Sept. 15, 1972, Iqbal Ahmed was 17 and at home in Kampala on vacation from boarding school in England.
It’s a day that shaped his life.
That’s the day that Idi Amin – who went by the self-proclaimed titles of Life President of Uganda, Conqueror of the British Empire and the Last King of Scotland — ordered the expulsion of the more than 50,000 Ugandans of Asian descent.
“We didn’t believe it,” says Ahmed. “People thought it can’t be true. … We were in shock when we left.”
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