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African Sports

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Dara Singh
Asians in African Sport 

The Asian Network is exploring 'African Lives' by looking at the experiences of Asians there. Here we celebrate the Asian involvement in African Sport.

    Ajaib Matharu
    Ajaib Matharu

    He played in the Ugandan national side in the 60's and 70's.

    Dara Singh
    Dara Singh

    Only Wrestler to gain recognition on the International scene.

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    Read what others have said

    Tell us your memories of Asian involvement in African sport.

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    Read what others have said..

    Manahr Patel, University of Oslo Norway
    First of all, I was so glad to see the photograph of Mr. Ajaib Singh. It reminds me of my old Kampala secondary school. Secondly, after coming to Norway from Uganda where I am a civil servant and first coloured person to just finished 30 years at the University of Oslo. Back to Uganda I still miss the MOGO of Dejay's after the school. Mapera, Jambuda, Matunda those were the fruits we were eating in the recess. My friends and I use to walk from Salisbury road to Old Kampala School everyday. This was about 4kms each way. The point is we were very active and one cannot compare the life in Europe and East Africa. Working with environmental institute I must inform our East Africans that there was no air pollution at all and it will never be because all the heavy industries are in Europe and Asia. Lastly if we can we should support the people who are suffering from human rights and democracy in Africa.

    Gurjit Singh Bahra
    Mr Matharu was my school teacher here in the UK, although my family was also from Kampala Uganda. I was born in Kampala - Uganda but have very few memories as I was 7 when we came to the UK. But I do remember the weather, the home we left behind and the Ed Clay hockey pitch near our house. Our grandfather first settled in Uganda after the Second World War in which he was a Sergeant in electrical core. My father then joined him with his brother in the early fifties.

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