In their projects students analyzed the play, proposed production scenarios and community outreach, and provided important context for student protest activities both in Uganda and Canada. In their conversations with George they learned that his grandfather had opened the first synagogue in Uganda, that the British colonial power planned to make Uganda - the Pearl of Africa - the site of the new state of Israel to re-locate European Jews after the horrific events of genocide and the Holocaust during WWII. We also learned that the Israeli hostage Dora Bloch, mentioned in his play, was killed very close to the site where George met his own traumatizing fate eight years later and that dictatorial leadership had expelled South-Asian citizens from Uganda in 1972. Some of those people later settled in Canada via their British colonial connections. 

The play "Come Good Rain" speaks to a complex historical situation where colonialism, imperialism and the violent struggles for post-colonial independence in Africa and worldwide intersect with Canadian history. The play is written bi-lingually including English and Luganda (George's native language that he was violently encouraged to give up as a child in a Catholic school in Uganda, another aspect addressed in the play).