No Place Like Home by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

No Place Like Home by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's personal account of growing up in East Africa up to the time of Idi Amin. Uganda in the 1950s had become home to a dispossessed Asian community. Yasmin grew up in a community who believed in its supremacy over the African and its subservience to the European.

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No Place Like Home by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's personal account of growing up in East Africa up to the time of Idi Amin. Uganda in the 1950s had become home to a dispossessed Asian community who had left India in the decades before. Some came as indentured labourers, later becoming dukanwallas running their small dusty shops - laying the foundation of a future entrepreneurial empire in East Africa. Against this backdrop, Yasmin grew up in a family and a community whose belief in its supremacy over the African and its subservience to the European was riddled with contradictions, fear and paranoia which culminated in Idi Amin's violent expulsion of Asians from Uganda in the 1970s.
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ISBN 13 9781853816420
ISBN 10 1853816426
Title No Place Like Home
Author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 1995-08-31
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.