via monitor.co.ug – These stories of Manubhai Madhvani who died in London in May 2011, are excerpts from Vali Jamal’s book Uganda Asians: Then and now, Here and There, We contributed, We contribute. The interview was done at Kakira on June 19, 2008 with Eng Yashwant D. Sidpra.
“Yes, 1972 was a turning point in my life, but then it was a turning point for the whole Asian community, wasn’t it? I had additional three months at Makindye (barracks prison). There are 50 pages on that in my book. Even then, right up to the expulsion deadline, I held on dearly to my Uganda passport hoping it would be cleared. I had missed the renunciation stage of my British citizenship by just three days and they wouldn’t hear of it. President Amin himself announced that I was no longer a Ugandan. The British first rejected me but then they took me in and of course I am personally grateful for that and so are the 28,000 Asians who went to the UK.” I ask if the Britain-based Asians have the same affection for Edward Heath as Canada-based Asians have for Pierre Trudeau.
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