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...

The Authors

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

(2021)

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Patrick O. Abungu, Fort Jesus Museum, National Museums of Kenya. Mombasa, Kenya.Michel Adam, Université François-Rabelais. Tours, France.Marie Pierre Ballarin, Unité de recherche Migrations et société (URMIS), Institut de recherche pour le développement. Nice, France.Bernard Calas, Les Afriques dans...

Minorities of Indo-Pakistani Origin

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Michel Adam (2021)

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the population of Kenya includes minorities of Indian or Pakistani origin whose number (approximately 100,000 people, or 0.3% of the total population) is unrelated to their economic, social and cultural importance (Nowik 2010, 132–33).At the crossroads o...

Christian Forms of Religion in Kenya

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Yvan Droz et al. (2021)

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IntroductionAlthough Kenya is often considered a Christian country, a Kenyan journalist asserted in 2013 that, “if an opinion poll was conducted to establish how many citizens regularly go to places of worship, the results would frighten the clergy to death. If the researchers were to probe deeper,...

Kenya in Motion 2000-2020

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Marie-Aude Fouéré et al. (2021)

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Cet ouvrage offre une saisie synthétique et des visions particulières du Kenya en ce premier quart du XXIe siècle. Il rassemble des contributions rigoureuses et accessibles pour montrer comment, depuis l’alternance de 2002, le Kenya s’efforce de changer par la modernisation économique et la libérali...

Les auteurs

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(2020)

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Les minorités d’origine indo-pakistanaise

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Michel Adam (2020)

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La population du Kenya inclut en ce début du xxie siècle des minorités d’origine indienne ou pakistanaise dont le nombre (environ 100 000 personnes, soit 0,3 % de la population totale) est sans rapport avec leur importance économique, sociale et culturelle (Nowik 2010, 132-133).Au carrefour de plusi...

Le Kenya en marche, 2000-2020

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Marie-Aude Fouéré et al. (2020)

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Références citées

Bibliographies

Michel Adam (2018)

Bibliographies

Adam Michel (1991), (avec la collaboration de Michael Kuria) La terre en miettes. Notes sur le système foncier traditionnel chez les Gikuyu du Kenya (Nairobi, Centre for Research, Documentation and University Exchanges) : 1-26 [Travaux et documents du credu].Adam Michel (1997), Espace et temps chez...

Authors

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

(2015)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Michel ADAM, Emeritus Professor at François Rabelais University in Tours (France)Godfrey ASIIMWE, Senior Lecturer at Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda)Fatima G. BAPUMIA, social anthropologist (Tanzania)Marie-Aude FOUÉRÉ, formerly Assistant Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Soc...

Acknowledgements

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Michel Adam (2015)

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The editor of this volume thanks members of the Indian-African communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania who granted interviews to the researchers involved in this project and gave them the warmest hospitality while displaying perfect understanding of the objectives and issues of this study. These i...

Portraits and Fragments of Life Histories in Kenya

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Michel Adam (2015)

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As a conclusion to this volume, the 19 following narratives or biographical fragments embody, at the level of the individual or the family, the recent history of populations of Indian origin living in Kenya. We could as well have collected these histories among populations residing in Uganda or Tanz...

Panorama of Socio-Religious Communities

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Michel Adam (2015)

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Little India or Little Bombay: the nickname given to one of the shopping malls frequented by the Indo-African communities living in Nairobi is a concentration of the socio-cultural reality of the diaspora, but whose contents are ignored and its extraordinary complexity concealed. Frequently perceive...

Indians and Others: Worlds Unknown to Each Other—Extracts of reports from the Kenyan press

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Michel Adam (2015)

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The Brahman Hinduist perception of the external world is characterized by preventing contact and selective avoidance, illustrated by the banning – actually caricature-like and not much respected – of crossing the seas for fear of exposing oneself to the risk of uncontrolled contamination. Maintained...

From the Trading-Post Indians to the Indian-Africans

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Michel Adam (2015)

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Just like Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe), the three countries of East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. Locally referred to as “Asians”, these people are essentially concentrated in the citie...

Family, Family Life and Marriage among Indian Communities in East Africa

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Michel Adam (2015)

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Regardless of their religion or class, Indian families in East Africa, which mostly originated from north-western India (Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan) and south-eastern parts of present-day Pakistan (Sindh), are characterized by some structurally common traits. These traits can be said to be deriving...