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15 décembre 2020
- handle: 10670/1.vpstk1
- isbn: 9789987082971
- eisbn: 9782957305810
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Laurent Nowik, « East African Indians: How Many Are They? », Africae, ID : 10670/1.vpstk1
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Introduction In East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), the communities of Indian and Pakistani origin went through difficult times during the initial years of independence in newly established states which adopted discriminatory policies against them, and which in the case of Uganda even led to their expulsion. These events reversed the previous demographic dynamics characterised by uninterrupted growth. Whereas in 1969 the population of the Indian diaspora in Uganda numbered 75,000, a thi...