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A Table Read Recording: Last Queen of Scotland by Jaimini Jethwa

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A Table Read Recording: Last Queen of Scotland by Jaimini Jethwa
A Table Read Recording: Last Queen of Scotland by Jaimini Jethwa

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03 Mar 2021, 12:00 GMT – 10 Mar 2021, 23:59 GMT

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Last Queen of Scotland by Jaimini Jethwa

A young INDIAN woman tells her story of being expelled from UGANDA by IDI-AMIN in 1972 and the effects on her family, growing up in SCOTLAND in one of the poorest housing schemes in BRITAIN and at a time when only white people lived in this community. August 1972, Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Ugandan-Asians under a 90-day deadline. From Uganda to Dundee a woman grows up knowing nothing about her homeland haunted by Amin’s impact on her destiny.

Returning to Uganda years later she confronts his ghost. “I had a dream he said and in that dream, God told him to expel all

Asians in a 90-day deadline”. Told with humour and poetic Scottish language, this story marries the culture of Africa, India, and Scotland together.

This is one story from a community in exile that sheds light on a unique…

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