In his introduction to this new edition of From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come to Britain Mahmood Mamdani reminds us that long before 1972 most Ugandan 'Asians' had already been disenfranchised by law both Ugandan and British. Despite a global industry that insists otherwise Uganda Asians are a poor fit as victims: there was no large-scale loss of life during the expulsion nor were there massacres of Asians only of 'indigenous' peoples. Asians in Uganda as in East or Southern Africa he a