My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.
One of the important things for me is that my father is from Sri Lanka. But even more importantly, he was a consultant for the World Bank.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African - Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.