Vijay (This Is Your Country Now, Too); BBC Radio 4

Avin Shah's comedy celebrates his East African heritage, BBC Radio 4, listen

"Today's story salutes the enterprise and grit of a generation of British Asian citizens, who were forced to remake their lives in the UK in the 1960s. Fifteen year-old Vijay was born in Kenya, but now the country has won its independence from the British Empire, a new programme of Africanisation means his parents are denied work, and his school has closed down. But when he arrives at Heathrow with his British passport, he's put on a plane back to Kenya. Then in Nairobi, Kenyan Immigration say he's not Kenyan either, and put him back on another plane. So where does Vijay belong? What can he say about who he is, that will get him off a plane and back to school? Luckily, Vijay's new travelling companion, Mr Ramesh Ramji, is about to help him find the answers".