AFRICAN AMERICAN OF INDIAN ORIGIN

Kenya is a country of diversity just like USA. It has varied cultures and traditions. Kenya has 42 ethnic groups, and have lived peacefully except in 2008 when post election violence erupted due to flawed election. Like US, Kenya was a colony of Great Britain from where they have borrowed various elements of governance based on British Commonwealth traditions. Dr John Mwaruvie

Jomo Kenyatta(1889 - 1978), prime minister of Kenya "When the white man came we had the land and they had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed and when we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible."

Lunatic express/Uganda railway

1896-1901

23,000 expatriate Indians6234 remained

180,000 at the time of independence

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The lions, dubbed "the Maneaters of Tsavo," were eventually shot and killed by the bridge construction supervisor, Engineer Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson, who had their skins made into rugs before selling them, some years later, to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for $5,000 US.

LEGCO

• The Indian becomes Asian– Separation of Indians classifications

Imported Indian skilled labor built the railway line from the Coast to the Great Lake, opening the interior for English settlement. Every railroad station, from Mombasa to Kisumu, initially depots for the building material, mushroomed into town mainly because of the Indian traders who provided much needed services to the workers initially but in time, to the community around. If European settlers opened the land for large-scale farming for export, the Indian opened the towns and cities for retail and wholesale commerce. Ngugi wa Thiongo

Retail and Wholesale Commerce

An exception seems to have been made for Dr. Riberio. He managed to train a zebra, and ride him around town for house calls.. A photo of Dr. Riberio on his famous zebra is included in the 1950 Souvenir Brochure of Nairobi City to convince skeptics of this account

PIO GAMA PINTO

A faithful son of Kenya who fought for the Independence

of Kenya alongside great stalwarts like Mzee Jomo

Kenyatta

Coming of Independence

• Throughgood Marshall 1963/ Supreme Court 1967

• Indian Penal code/unmarried female• Tribal codes Wambui Otieno, S.M.

Otieno/1987 buried in Nyamila• Hair style

1964 the government of Kenya adopted an "Africanization" or "Kenyanization", plan to replace non-citizens with citizens in key areas of the economy. [ George Thomas Kurian, Encyclopedia of the Third World, Vol.2, (New York: Facts on File Inc., 1987), p.1047.]

The Trade Licensing Act of 1967 provides for the exclusion of "non-citizens from various trades and professions and from all but five specified General Trading (geographic) areas. The legislation is specifically framed to exclude non-citizens". [ Rhoda E. Howard, Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa, (New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1986), p.102.]

Post Independence Kenya

The Commonwealth Immigrants Bill was moved on 27 February, and it waspassed by (British) parliament on 1 March 1968.

The Kenyan Asians’ episode was a political crisis of tremendous significance. Politically, it was of immeasurable consequence for the life chances of Asians who were unable to scramble through the closing door ; intellectually, it is a sort of prism through which several broader currents of post-war British political history are illuminated.

The Commonwealth Immigrants Bill

Although Asians with Kenyan citizenship enjoyed some statutory protection (though little social acceptance), those without soon felt the tightening vice. Their work permits were gradually withdrawn, and they found themselves squeezed out of the Kenyan economy. The Kenyan Immigration Act, 1967,required all those without Kenyan citizenship to acquire work permits; a Trade Licensing Act passed in the same year limited the areas of the country in which non-Kenyans could engage in trade; and Asians in the civil service were sacked in favor of Africans.

Without a future in Africa, and with no right (or, in many cases, strong inclination) to migrate to India or Pakistan,they began to travel to England. In early 1967, Kenyan Asians were arriving at the rate of approximately 1,000 per month

1972 UGANDA EXPULSION OF ASIANS

Ethnic Discord /Hostility in Uganda : Expelled 20 years ago by Idi Amin, they are starting to reclaim their land and property.

August 17, 1993TAMMERLIN DRUMMOND | TIMES STAFF WRITER

UGANDA: Unprecedented Move

1990s5 BILLION DOLLARS8 BILLION DOLLARS

TRANSFORMATIONS

The Kenyan operations of the Bank achieved a Profit Before Tax of Kshs 4.7 Billion reflecting a 6% growth over 2011 as total assets grew by 19% to Kshs 91.5 Billion.

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