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Ugandan Asians in UK 
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1. Asian Enterprise report in the Times (9 April 1999, page 23)
There was a an article recently in the Times which highlighted the success of Ugandan Asians and commented that it served as a mute reproach to the insular who feared immigration and offered evidence of the benefits of working together. The article was titled "Energy and talent turned refugees into millionaires" and it continued:
As newcomers to Britain, the huddled in wintry airports and temporary reception centres, penniless, shivering and shocked. But the 50,000 Asians expelled in 1972 from Uganda by its then President Idi Amin have turned that tale of woe into a dramatic success story. A list of the 200 richest Asians in Britain, published this week, shows that the bedraggled East African refugees of a quarter century ago are now, with the Chinese community Britain's most high-flying ethnic minority. The courage talent and sheer hard work with which Ugandan and other Asian immigrants rebuilt their lives, in a country whose welcome was tempered with anxiety, have proved a blessing not only for the new millionaires themselves but for the British economy as a whole. Tens of thousands of jobs have been created by expanding Asian businesses, and more will follow. Asian enterprise, still concentrated in the traditional food, fashion and retailing sectors, is now moving into hi-tech and hotel industries and the media. Increasing numbers of business-women are taking their place beside businessmen. The young are taking their place beside, or instead of, their parents; for first generation entrepreneurs foster an early knowledge of management in their children by training them in the businesses they found - then handling them on. The merit of Asian business strategies speaks for itself: the combined wealth of the lists entrepreneurs is more than 7 billion pounds sterling.
The energy that made millionaires of a few is fueling a broader move towards integration and minority achievement in modern Britain..............
It also offers fresh evidence of the benefits of working together to create a genuinely multicultural society.
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GOANS IN THE U.K.
HIDDEN among the Asian ethnic minorities living in the U.K. there is a small group of some twenty-five thousand Goans who emigrated mostly from East Africa over thirty years ago.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/maac/
Multi Asian Arts Centre,
129 Drake Street, Rochdale. OL16 1PZ
Registered charity number: 1037518
http://www.cybervillage.mcmail.com/
information on the Bangladeshi and Asian community in UK.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/maac/other-links.htm
The Drum (20/2/1998) The Drum is Birmingham's newest arts centre dedicated to promoting African, Asian and Caribbean art and cultural activities. PANDEMONIUM - Rochdale Samba School
Asian Weddings, Fashion & Lifestyle Magazine
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