In Kololo Hill, Neema Shah has put human faces to a horrid scar on Uganda’s history, while tactfully navigating themes of the British Empire, nationalism, home, and displacement of people whom various histories seemed to be in cahoots to erase. The story is set against a morbid backdrop of curfews and military night patrols, disappeared people, and rumours of hacked bodies floating on the Nile Ugandans and Indians alike being violated in all manner of ways by Amin’s soldiers. Motichand, Jaya, Pran, Asha, and Vijay are no exception to the panic that builds up in the Asian community as they face the grim reality that they must leave the life they have built in Uganda. The novel Kololo Hill follows one Ugandan Indian family in 1972 when Amin issues a decree expelling all Ugandan Asians within ninety days.
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