Title: Memoirs of a muhindi : fleeing East Africa for the West /
Authors: Ladha, Mansoor,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Journalists Canada Biography; Muslims Canada Biography.; Immigrants Canada Biography; Persecution Africa, East.; Africa, East Politics and government.; Africa, East Social conditions.
Abstract: "In Memoirs of a Muhindi, Mansoor Ladha bears witness to what happens when nations turn against entire religious and ethnic groups. When Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled Africans of Indian descent from the country in 1972, he unleashed an intolerance that set off an exodus from the entire region. In Tanzania and Kenya, businesses were nationalized, properties taken, people harassed, and livelihoods upended. Mansoor Ladha, who was living in Nairobi at the time, had to decide whether to stay or go. Canada became his new home--where he found considerable success, as did the rest of the Ismaili community--while East Africa never recovered from its fit of bigotry. A newspaper columnist and award-winning journalist, Mansoor Ladha is the author of A Portrait in Pluralism: Aga Khan's Shia Ismaili Muslims. He lives in Calgary, Alberta."--
Contents: Colonial Africa -- Lindi -- Feud and Revolution -- A Student in Dar -- Changing Times -- Independence -- National Service or National Servitude? -- Life as a Journalist -- All in th eFamily -- Aftermath of Amin's Order -- "Canadian Experience" -- India -- Fifty Years after Nyerere -- Return to Africa -- Diaspora Lament -- Postscript.