Kololo Hill

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This may be the story of one fictional family but it represents the universal experience of those who are forced to relocate and make their homes elsewhere.

for a book centred on homelands, from a village (can't remember the name) in Gujurat to Kololo Hill in Kampala to some suburb in London, there was no description of the setting, except for a brief explanation of the history of Kololo Hill. From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah’s extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill explores what it means to leave your home behind, what it takes to start again, and the lengths some will go to protect their loved ones. As the book opens, Asha stumbles across bloody of evidence of the lengths Amin’s forces to which they would go.A poignant story of a family who lost everything they loved, trying to rebuild their lives in a country so different from their own, and one where the welcome they received, was as cold as the weather. I would have loved a little more focus on the disturbing political scenario in Uganda and globally describing the expulsion in more detail than what was described but I’m not complainin

How do you learn to navigate new landscapes and languages, building alternative lives to the ones they've always known?

Shah brought the novel to its end point with authenticity and a sense of what the future would hold for all concerned.

Its well written, and the passages surrounding forced evacuation and the sudden reality of being a displaced immigrant are memorable. this made me appreciate how the flashbacks in A Place For Us and Tell Me How To Be create such genuine images of the main characters' childhoods. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I enjoyed reading this book in as much as it filled the gap in my knowledge of how this affected these victims and how they instantly applied their industry to forging new lives for themselves in a strange country that enjoyed only a temperate climate.Kololo Hill is a constant reminder of being forcefully uprooted and deprived- of a home, occupation and respect. Civil strife is heavily depicted in the first half of the story - reminiscent of the movie The Last King of Scotland - and I've included trigger warnings above for this reason. The effect of this brutal, political climate is beautifully drawn as the Ugandan Asian family in Kololo Hill come fully to grips with what they are about to lose.