Uganda: The Story Your Parents Never Told You

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Ankur Desai speaks to his mum and other British Asians about their Ugandan heritage.

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How Ankur’s mum and other Ugandan Asians adapted to life in the UK in 1972.

From settlement camps to setting up businesses, how Ankur’s mum and other Ugandan Asians adapted to life in the UK after being forced to flee East Africa in 1972.

“It’s very cold” – what many of the 40,000 Asians said as they got off the plane arriving in the UK for the first time from Uganda. Ankur Desai finds out whether despite the cold weather, the Asians expelled from Uganda got a warm welcome in the UK. Speaking to his own mother, Ankur finds out how difficult it was for her to adapt to life in the UK. Also retracing her history, Vanisha Sparks and her mum travel to a former settlement camp, that’s now a prison, where her mum was housed by the UK government when she first arrived. And Sanjay talks to his dad about how he managed to build a successful business from scratch in Leicester.

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