Where Is Home? Exhibition Celebration & In Conversation with Neema Shah

Join us for the first special event of our “Where Is Home?” nationally touring exhibition!

Author Neema Shah will be joining us for an in conversation hosted by exhibition curator Alnoor Mitha. Enjoy a live music performance, drinks and snacks and take the opportunity to view the exhibition.

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Neema’s debut novel, “Kololo Hill” is inspired by the lives of her grandparents who left India for East Africa in in the 1940s as well as those who were expelled from Uganda by brutal ruler Idi Amin.

From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Shah’s extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill explores what it means to leave your home behind, what it takes to start again, and the lengths some will go to protect their loved ones.

“Where Is Home?” explores the global migration of South Asian communities. 2022 is a momentous year for South Asian heritage, marking India and Pakistan's 75th anniversary of partition, and the 50th anniversary of Asian Ugandan expulsion.

These globally significant events have shaped modern Britain and Where is Home? will look first hand at those directly affected by these cultural shifts, and explore the origins of how they began.