Life in Uganda 40 Years On 

The sentiment in the late 60s and early 70s in Uganda was fixated on the assumption of the entitlement to equality of outcomes. The Indians were rich and natives were not. The sentiment was that the Indians were holding back the natives. The Indians saved their money and focused on commerce and rose up economically. The natives could not do this because they lacked the commerce culture not because they were inept. Many of the Indians came from Gujarat which had seen some very hard times and due to cyclical agriculture limitations. The people there learned and became savvy. In sharp contrast Uganda was a paradise of nature, there were fruit trees every where people had not seen hard times or famines, they did not have a history of hard times passed down through generations. Uganda had an abundance of food and was a net exporter of food till Idi Amin expelled the Indians.

I used to work with a lady in London , she was originally from Uganda, she went back with her husband and tried to invest in the country and was fleeced at every turn. Brave man to invest in Africa (or an Indian)

Moral of the story discrimination can lead to disaster.

"The economy was hit hard" It collapsed!

Best wishes to uganda love from india hard working people of uganda

Thank you for this! I feel culturally enriched now!

Since Idi Amin expelled Asian community from Uganda are now being very well settled in various parts of western countries.

Aunt jasper thanks for that great submission in the clip... Long live uganda

Thanks Uganda for calling the Asians back they were as Ugandan as you, you were wrong to kick them out, best live with them and help them and help yourselves business has no race and science has no race and education has no race. All the best Uganda ! Love from India.

lol, My Africans why are we so intolerant?. We are too angry, too impulsive, too impatient. Education is the only thing that will bring us out of these situations.

It's very sad this country is only known as a meme

UGANDANS :REMEMBER THIS FOREVER! when Asians were expelled from Uganda, there was a young boy and his family who were resettled in Canada. SHAFIQ FIRANI ENDED UP AS A TOP NOTCH DOCTOR SPECIALIZING IN TREATING CHILDREN BORN WITH DEFORMITY (CLUB FOOT). LATER HE CAME BACK AND TREATED THOUSANDS OF UGANDAN CHILDREN FREE OF CHARGE

THEY DO NOT KNOW DE WAY

Good to see Uganda undoing the mess of Idi Amin. Wishing all the best to Uganda... from India.

the movie "Last King of Scotland" brought me here...

Love this video.

Comments are 70%- Uganda knuckle comments 20%- actually about the video 10%- others

I love Uganda🇺🇬 from India🇮🇳...

Most of the African cities names sounds like Indian names ,, Kampala is one example ,, may be there was strong cultural link some where in distant past ( long long ago nobody knows how long ago) - All the best Uganda - terrain is so beautiful 🙏

Things like business skills, political skills, etc... are cultural stuff. They seem to be passed on from parent to child for generations. When Indians do business better in other countries, it shouldn't be a problem. What the government should do is to find ways their people could do as good as them!

Uganda will always be in my heart I loved that country.

Show me da way my brodda

My sister is good friends with a Asian family who fled Uganda. They settled in California and became successful very quickly. When they were invited back by the new government the husband went to look at their house (which was almost in ruins). He asked his wife if she wanted to move back and she basically said "Hell no, I'm not leaving California!". He sold it and they're still here.

Can someone please assist with the title and artist of the song which is at the beginning of this video. I don't know what it means but it touches me a lot.

Uganda is the real wakanda

Indians are enterprenuers.........they work hard and build a business any here they go in theworld

The subtitles. I urge you to open them. 0:01

"Due to the actions of one man" yeah, a very popular man with little resistance

Very interesting documentary.

Beautiful country I would love to go there

2013 is when I loved Uganda so much because I had joined University 💃👍

So true what he said, (and you have funding) the Africans are not given funding, most the returnee Asians are given funding to prosper by international banks including the world bank, not the Africans.

This is perhaps what V.S. Naipaul's "A bend in the river" is loosely based on..

In terms of natural beauty Uganda does look very beautiful.

Love the soundtrack at the start...anyone know the song ?

When the Brits administered the place, they brought in Asians as laborers for building the railways, and among those who came were some who had experience as shop owners. As they started their own businesses, they filled a void in the economy, as the locals had no such acumen, and everyone benefited. As in Kenya, where the Mau Maus destroyed a vibrant economy simply because of their envy of the accomplishments of the European managers, in Uganda, Amin played upon this black envy to chase out the Asians, with whom he had no affiliations, in order to consolidate his rule; an impoverished former colony was the result. This is the pattern with all African-dominated countries (Haiti included), but it's always blamed upon whites (even decades or centuries down the line) by those who are incapable of accepting responsibility for their own actions...

I love my homeland🏁

All the best to Uganda - it’s so beautiful and fertile - please protect Mother Nature

Kindly whats the name of the song at the beginning of the video?

I'm from Pakistan I love my Pakistan 🇵🇰 Long live pakiastan Nice beautiful and very informative video thanks Make this great video for us

The Indians were the business and financial backbone of Uganda and look at the bloody economic mess that ensued from that idiot Amin.

nice country!best wishes for the progressive state. i am an indian .happy to see ugandans progress. India will stand by this friendly nation

O love this documentary

Amin kicked out the Asians which was a terrible ordeal for them, but they got the last laugh because after their departure Uganda's economy collapsed and the country severely suffered. He who laughs last laughs best.

its quite interesting how these indians say they were born in uganda, but when refering to black people they call them Africans!! if indeed they were born there then they would be Africans themselves.

Long live my African brothren and sisters God bless you with all happiness, pleasures and comfort you desire in our land of joy and enlightenimen

Which year was that Kampala

what is the name of the song at the start? anyone?

This is so sad for the Africans dependence on others.

Good luck to our African brothers and sisters

what was that song from the beginning

To Kenian Dude- I am a white south african, I never thought african people stupid, if you dont live in a society that teach you you cannot learn, I helped at a church, the women wanted to learn cooking, a stuped girl that gave the cooking lessons, showed them how to make a marange for ice cream. When I started the class they were not friendly, I taught them how to make budget meals, that was healthy. Soon everyone gave me some recipe, they learn fast, are very friendly. We also had a male -he wanted to learn how to read and write- he was only there for the food, I helped him and after a year he knew the alphabet and slowly stared to read, that is not dumm, nobody think they are dumm they have very few oportunities, and everyone knows that.

Looks as messed up as it did four years ago, hopeless situation!

My beautiful country god bless them

I love this country Uganda

Can someone please explain what "show me de way" is all about? Almost everyone is saying it.

Idi Amin said they refused to integrate and were only using African wealth for themselves.. Indians and Arabs could not do to Uganda what they did to Trinidad and Fiji.....Let them leave .

I am loving what I am seeing thank you

observation: Idi "The Butcher" ironically spent 35 years as an exiled "foreigner" himself in Arabia. He owned 12 Duncan Donuts, 15 poorly run hotels, 35 gas stations without courtesy washer fluid, countless 7-11's with locked public restrooms, had 20 relatives living in back in each place and had tacky diode lights around all store front doors and windows. Yet he targeted Indians? What was he afraid of?

Beautiful country side

We never freeeezzzee

dhei neva freez

Beautiful country.What would've become of Uganda without Amin ,I keep asking myself.....

1:53 u guys see that red small thing hidding behind the trees or just me?

"Do You Know Da Wae" Comments in coming!

Darling Uganda your future is bright. 😘 See you soon. Matthew 12 :42

I simply love Uganda.

I think it's a good idea! Indians and Africans working together because both groups are smart.

3:10 I love Rwanda 🇷🇼

The best part about all these comments is that the haters have NEVER BEEN to Uganda or ANY African nation! So ignorant.

excellent. :)

Merry merry Christmas

This is why government should never intervene with free enterprise. It never ends well. Capitalism is the only way to grow an economy

I'm in Toronto (Brampton) and there's high East Asian population, and I will agree, they are highly business minded. Yet, i'm on the fence with Idi Amin's decision to expel them.Because I agree there should be some-kind of cultural integration to a degree, but a 90 day evacuation? That's madness

Entebbe is a major city there?

where yo peeps find this video?

சூப்பர் வாழ்த்துக்கள் அருமை அய்யா உங்கள் படம்

do u know the way

needs all support now

I love the start song...

Absolutely beautiful reminds me of lion king lol

This happend everywhere when Europeans left Africa. The blacks, and also asians weren't ready at all..

Why are you not interviewing the locals more?

I'm Ugandan . everyone and anyone is welcome Just treat people the way you'd want to be treated

Da way?

Less that five years later, to economy suffered total collapse, from which they are still suffering.

lol@the comments. exactly what I said when I heard Amin's accent,hehehehe

Idi Amin expelled the Asians who rejected Ugandan citizenship but wanted to own businesses in Uganda. That's the part of the story they don't tell you.

Clearly fake, I don't see anyone asking "do you no de wae?" or intense clicking

99% do you kno da wae 1% actually about the video

Idi Amin had a point, just that he addressed the whole issue the old school way.

Indian and African are actually brothers ..both are hard worker...best of luckl

indonesia did the same to the chinese. indonesia and uganda are muslim dominated countries, these type of incidents or catastropy happens in muslim countries only......A BIG WHY...

*Clicks

East African nation ? Near Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Congo ?

So nice

so black people just happened to take over the asians land? im confused about where this information was taken from. it belonged to ugandans and asians migrated there right? right!

DO YOU KNOW DA WAY OF DA DEVIL

Que bonito es vivir en paz

This is da way brodda.