Indian Africa
Minorities of Indian-Pakistani Origin in Eastern Africa
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres and in the remotest of rural townships. They play a leading social and economic role as the)’ work in business, manufacturing and the service industry, and make up a large proportion of the liberal professions. They are divided...
Éditeur : Africae, Mkuki na Nyota
Lieu d’édition : Nairobi
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 15 décembre 2020
ISBN numérique : 978-2-9573058-1-0
Collection : Africae Studies
Année d’édition : 2015
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-9987-08-297-1
Nombre de pages : xviii-484
Michel Adam
AcknowledgementsMichel Adam
Panorama of Socio-Religious CommunitiesLaurent Nowik
East African Indians: How Many Are They?Colette Le Cour Grandmaison
Nizarite Ismailis in KenyaNathalie Gomes
Bohras in East Africa: Orthodoxy and ReformismGidraph G. Wairire
Merchants and Industrialists of Indo-Pakistani Origin in Kenya: A Sociological OverviewBarbara Morovich
Living Apart Together: Economic and Spatial Logic of Indian Communities in Nakuru (Kenya)Godfrey B. Asiimwe
Migrations and Identity of Indian-Pakistani Minorities in UgandaSimeon Mesaki et Fatima G. Bapumia
The Minorities of Indian Origin in TanzaniaMarie-Aude Fouéré
“Indians are Exploiters and Africans Idlers!”Identity formation and socio-economic conditions in Tanzania
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres and in the remotest of rural townships. They play a leading social and economic role as the)’ work in business, manufacturing and the service industry, and make up a large proportion of the liberal professions. They are divided into multiple socio-religious communities, but united in a mutual feeling of meta-cultural identity.
This book aims at painting a broad picture of the communities of Indian origin in East Africa, striving to include changes that have occurred since the end of the 1980s. The different contributions explore questions of race and citizenship, national loyalties and cosmopolitan identities, local attachment and transnational networks. Drawing upon anthropology, history, sociology and demography, Indian Africa depicts a multifaceted population and analyses how the past and the present shape their sense of belonging, their relations with others, their professional and political engagement. This book is a must-read for contemporary researchers, students, policy practioners as well as the general reader.
Michel ADAM, Emeritus Professor at François Rabelais University in Tours (France)
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