What it takes descendants of the third world to rule a superpower
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Will Ugandans, also formerly colonised British subjects like Indians and Kenyans, see one of their immigrants’ children (preferably a daughter) rise to rule Britain in 2037 when they mark 75 years of Independence? PHOTO | JONATHAN BRADY | POOL | AFP
A popular Ugandan traditional saying has it that a rat that lives long enough gets to eat the skin of the cat! Can you fathom the sweetness! Well, an Indian born before August 15, 1947, as a colonial subject of Britain and still alive can fathom the full import of this Ugandan saying as they savour the victorious emergence of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister of Britain, ‘a mere’ 75 years since his people gained independence. What a Diamond Jubilee trophy!
The rest of us can rely on history books and movies like the great Gandhi film starred by top British actor Ben Kingsley, who was fathered by a Kenya Indian like Rishi Sunak himself, to appreciate the feeling of people subjected to a century of cruel colonial rule on seeing their own taking the most powerful position in the colonial master’s country.
