In August, Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, will be marking 50 years since it was declared a Black Man’s city when President Idi Amin expelled some 80,000 mostly Indians who dominated the country’s economy then and constituted about one percent of the country's population. It was called Africanisation.
While these Indian families are noticeably preparing to mark the golden jubilee of their exodus in far flung cities where they fled to, settled and prospered in the UK and Canada, Kampala has also this year been trying for the umpteenth time to look like a decent modern city. Following the August 1972 expulsions, the city descended into one chaotic mess with every new year, as disorder in the planning, transport and commerce sectors became the norm.
