Michela Wrong

Why were 80,000 Asians suddenly expelled from Uganda in 1972?

Lucy Fulford never fully explains how this community was so easily scapegoated, nor why Idi Amin’s decree caused such jubilation across East Africa at the time

Idi Amin at the time of the Asian expulsions in 1972. [Getty Images]
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  • The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus

    Lucy Fulford

    Coronet, pp. 384, £22

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