{"id":5378,"date":"2022-08-05T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/05\/uganda-i-was-forced-to-leave-idyllic-childhood-home\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T23:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T23:18:19","slug":"uganda-i-was-forced-to-leave-idyllic-childhood-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=5378","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: I was forced to leave idyllic childhood home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In August 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin gave an order that all Asians must leave the country in 90 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Nisha Popat, who was nine at the time, remembers how her idyllic childhood, climbing mango trees and swimming in Lake Victoria, suddenly changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-leicestershire-62306155\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">spoke to the BBC<\/a> about what happened and life in a new country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For more stories on the Ugandan Asians, listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/p004t1hd\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History<\/a> on BBC Sounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-62406208?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In August 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin gave an order that all Asians must leave the country in 90 days. Nisha Popat, who was nine at the time, remembers &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}