A review by bookwoods
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan

4.0

 We Are All Birds of Uganda ended up being an incredibly engaging book about immigration! It’s a multigenerational family drama revealing a piece of history previously unknown to me: how under colonialism people were transported from India to Uganda, where families grew roots but where they weren’t welcome once the country gained its independence, meaning they had to search refugee in Europe. The book follows a descendant of such chain of migrations, Sameer, as he starts to question his life as a promising layer in London. Hafsa Zayyan has taken inspiration from her own family’s story and the book does have a personal feel to it. It’s also just really fluently executed, even though I wasn’t the biggest fan of the ending.