In August 1972, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had a dream that God told him to expel Asians from his country. But maybe just add a bit more enterprise and more reverence for education like the Gujarati. In America they own about half the independent pharmacies and run a third of the hotels and motels. According to the Economist, about 63 million Gujarati live in India and 3 to 9 million are (very roughly) estimated to live abroad. Predictably, the seized businesses of these former residents of the Gujarat state in India soon failed and economic collapse all over Uganda followed.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 11, 2016 16:52 UTC