Indian Diaspora In East Africa
The Indian diaspora in Africa consists of approximately 1.5 million people of Indian origin living in Africa. Most of this diaspora arrived in the 19th century as British indentured labourers, many of them to work on the Kenya-Uganda railway, while others had arrived earlier by sea as traders.
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