50 years on from the arrival of the Ugandan Asians
A milestone for one of Britain’s most successful immigrant groups
Jaffer kapasi was just a teenager when he stepped off a charter plane at London’s Stansted airport in October 1972. It was very cold, he remembers, the more so perhaps since he and his family had boarded the plane in the sunshine of Uganda. His parents were disorientated and depressed. They spoke little English and were leaving behind a comfortable life in east Africa, complete with servants and chauffeurs. From the airport the family was taken by bus to a former army barracks in Essex, and then on to a similarly spartan camp in rural Wales.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “From Kampala to the Cabinet Room”
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