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date: 21 March 2025

Asians in Africa. 

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
Author(s):
Surendra BhanaSurendra Bhana

Indians and Chinese make up the largest numbers of Asians in Africa. Indians have had contact with Africa for centuries, but their migration grew only in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the expansion of British colonial rule in eastern, central, and southern Africa. The Chinese also had early contact with eastern Africa, but significant Chinese migration to Africa did not occur until the twentieth century, and on a smaller scale than Indian settlement.... ...

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