Goa, Aug. 2 -- BY INVITATION | Vivek Menezes

The decades following the Amin explosion left deep wounds. There was the memory of parents whose longing for their homes in Uganda was one of the saddest things I've ever been confronted with.

If the longest standing opposition leader is incarcerated in a maximum-security prison and the main opposition challenger in the last two election cycles has fled into exile," asked the US-based Ugandan academic Moses Khisa on Facebook last week, "what's to be said of the country in question? It was a sobering, sorrowful reality check about an incredibly beautiful and blessed country where thousands of Goans have profound family connections going back over five generations. And when I reached out to oth...