Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controlled 80% of Uganda's economy). But still they complain remarkably little about their drastically diminished status. "Actually," says an engineer, "I was going to come earlier. The only difference is that I would have had some money and now I am penniless." Smiles an ex-merchant from Kampala: "The only thing I miss is my Citro...
...student in a pinstriped suit awaits his father, a well-to-do Ugandan architect who will probably not qualify to practice in England. What are his emotions about this turn in the family's fortunes? "It's a bloody inconvenience," he replies. Adds a restaurant owner from Kampala: "There is no big problem. You only have to begin from scratch, work and earn, and slowly, slowly everything will be all right...
There is a sort of Evelyn Waugh-torn atmosphere in Kampala. While a vast crowd of Africans swarmed up Acacia Avenue toward the stadium, a lone white man carried on unperturbedly with his golf game on the course near by, his black caddy trotting dutifully by his side. Foreign journalists are definitely not welcome in the capital these days, and the few whites in the streets get curious stares, particularly if they are carrying cameras...
...exodus of the Asians has already had an obvious effect on the economy of Kampala. Jobless Africans are clamoring for work at the city's hotels, which are running short of bread, soap and even gin; one must drink vodka to immunize oneself against the mosquito bites. Restaurants guard their menus like gold: most of the printing in the city was done by Asians. In the commercial sector of Kampala, nearly 80% of the shops are now shut and barred; in some the stock can be seen gathering dust behind the steel mesh placed across the windows. There...
...Entebbe Airport. It is little consolation to them to know that their forced departure is creating an economic crisis with which Amin's government is obviously incapable of coping. "I give the place three months," declares a Kenya businessman who can find no qualified Ugandan to run his Kampala-based company. "Amin may still have a country, but the country will have nothing." The Kenyan adds bitterly: "The general will probably only realize it when he finds he can't get any medals minted any more. The Asians even did that...