[3] He was forced to flee Uganda in 1972 after he gave a speech publicly criticizing the expulsion of Asians from the country by Idi Amin.

He fled to England via Tanzania, and was able to finish his studies at Durham University, graduating with an upper-second in Economics and Politics.

[4] In October 1974, he began his post-graduate studies at Balliol College, Oxford, before returning to East Africa.

He entered the University of Dar es Salaam to lecture and conduct research while pursuing his doctorate in economics.

[7][8] He is credited with many of the sound economic policies adopted by the Uganda government at the urging of the central bank during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s.