Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Auteur van The Settlers Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes a weekly column for the Independent and has also written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Observer.
Fotografie: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Photo by Photo by Simon Veit-Wilson | http://www.veit-wilson.co.uk
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Accustomed as we are to the 'typical' Indian muslim lifestyle, those ex-pats who settled in Africa, seem to have had a much less constrained upbringing. Surrounded by black Africans, whites, and other Indian ethnic groups, religious observance seems to have been optional, and teenage life, while more supervised than in the West, was nonetheless filled with the dates and dances that we regard as the norm.
The author describes a dysfunctional family, headed by a 'difficult' and notably unsuccessful father; she looks at the Indians' rather arrogant, dismissive attitude toward native Ugandans...and the creeping realization that they were gradually taking back the power ...
I am not a fan of Ms Alibhai-Brown's political views, and this perhaps made me slightly less sympathetic to the events of her life. But nonetheless an engaging read.… (meer)