Good thing President Amin didn’t listen to his dreams” (p. A couple weeks ago he’d announced on the news that he had a dream where God spoke to him about getting rid of Indians.
Asha considers Uganda home and is sure that Idi Amin would never actually follow through, saying “President Amin dreamed a lot. Asha and Yesofu have different opinions on this dream. Tensions continued to build when President Idi Amin was said to have had a dream where he pictured Africa as being returned to Africans. Many wealthy Indian families hired Africans as servants, as was the case with Yesofu’s mother working as a servant for Asha’s family. After Britain left Uganda years prior, the British had seemingly appointed people from India as the ruling class in Uganda. This feeling of injustice sets the stage for the rest of the story.Īs the story progresses, we begin to understand more about the origins of these racial and class tensions. We come to understand that Yesofu is aware of his lower-class status in comparison to Asha’s family. He responds by saying, “Everyone! Your friends. Asha presses Yesofu on the issue of not coming inside to the party and asks him why he cares and who would care if he came in.
However, we ascertain that there is tension between races and classes of citizens in Entebbe when Yesofu refuses to come into the party. Yesofu shows up to give Asha a bracelet with beautifully colored beads for her birthday. The story opens at Asha’s birthday party at the Entebbe Club, a popular gathering place for affluent Indians in Entebbe. Tina Athaide’s novel uses alternating third-person narration between the two characters, Yesofu and Asha. Set in 1972 in Entebbe, Uganda, Orange for the Sunsets is the story of a friendship between a young girl whose family is from India and a young boy whose family is from Uganda during President Idi Amin’s expulsion of Indians from Uganda.
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