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The Fakirani family at the room naming for Hassanali and Sakinabai Fakirani. September, 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n

“In 1972, Hassanali and Sakinabai Fakirani along with 60,000 other Ugandan Asians were forced from their homes by Uganda\u2019s dictator Idi Amin. Hassanali, Sakinabai and 6,000 others entered Canada as refugees.<\/p>\n

Almost 42 years later, on June 20, the Fakirani family gathered at Carleton University with friends and other members of the Ugandan Asian community in order to commemorate World Refugee Day and announce the Fakiranis\u2019 support for Carleton\u2019s Ugandan Asian Archives Collection. The archive includes more than 1,000 newspaper clippings about the 1972 expulsion. A gift from the Fakirani family has supported the cataloguing and digitizing of the archive, the creation of a\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0as well as the ongoing collection of oral histories…”<\/p>\n

Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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