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15 décembre 2020
- handle: 10670/1.h1o4n7
- isbn: 9789987082971
- eisbn: 9782957305810
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Gidraph G. Wairire, « Merchants and Industrialists of Indo-Pakistani Origin in Kenya: A Sociological Overview », Africae, ID : 10670/1.h1o4n7
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It is well known that in addition to the Indian population that was already long established along the East Africa coasts, a wave of immigrants from Northern India was attracted by business opportunities in Kenya due to the presence of contract workers involved in the construction of the railway line from Mombasa to Uganda in the beginning of the twentieth century. Thus, in the beginning, traders, artisans, independent workers and newcomers turned to a clientele of Indian workers in Kenya who...