Fried Ants and Yorkshire Pudding by Glenville Kedie
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Overview: In 1970, my Father packed up his family, left the gritty industrial north of England, and moved to Africa seeking a better life. In Sheffield, a working-class family such as ours had a place, and we were expected to stay in it. In Uganda, such social barriers no longer mattered and slowly, I began to think of myself less and less as English — as M’zungu, a stranger — and more and more as African.
Shortly after our arrival, the infamous dictator Idi Amin staged a military coup and literally overnight, the country changed. There were mass deportations, and in the first few weeks thousands of soldiers, politicians and civilians thought loyal to the previous regime were rounded up and executed. Tens of thousands more followed over the next several years. Many of these disgraced soldiers, officers and ministers were publicly executed on the beaches of Lake Victoria, less than a mile from our house, and at the roadside between Entebbe and Kampala, the capital.
As a boy I was caught between two worlds, English at home and African everywhere else, and the sight of bodies at the side of the road and washed up on the shores of the lake become so frequent that they became little more than scenery, part of our childhood games.
The expatriate community all believe that the troubles were temporary, and far beyond the control of a few European families. Surely, they thought, the British government will step in, any day now…? This is the story of what it was like to grow up where terrifying brutality and death were common, everyday occurrences… it’s also the story of what was to me a perfectly normal childhood, in one of the most beautiful places on earth.
Genre: Non Fiction Biography Memoir
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