Walk down the frenzied, color-splashed side streets of Nairobi where most people do their shopping. This is Africa, but for block after block, the signs on the dukas, as the shops are called, evoke India and Pakistan: Ganijee Glass Mart, Indian Emporium, Patel & Co., Shah & Sons, Ghela Manck, Hindustan Boot Co., Bombay Sweet Mart. Most of the shops of downtown Nairobi are in the hands of Indians and Pakistanis. Wearing Benares saris and Punjabi pants and Sikh turbans, these shopkeepers and their families, with their jet black hair, enormous black eyes and pale brown skin, living in a land run by African blacks, are the most visible evidence of the gravest minority problem in East Africa today. There are 350,000 Asians, as the Indians and Pakistanis are called here, among East Africa’s 29 million people. About half of them live in Kenya, a quarter in Tanzania, a quarter in Uganda. They are the shopkeepers, clerks, artisans and foremen of East Africa, resented and often despised by the Africans who feel cut off from the economies of their own countries. The Asians fill just those jobs and places that Africans believe they now have enough experience and training to take...

Nairobi Regime Heeds African Charges of Exploitation, Acts to Further Exodus - Everyone here calls it "the Asian exodus." Toward 10 o'clock in the evening the airport of this African capital takes on the air of Bombay or Karachi. The hall of the airport grows crowded with Sikhs in turbans, women in in their Benares saris, mischievous, brown-skinned, black-eyed children in short pants, old bearded men in baggy trousers, chic girls in trim Punjabi dress. There is a festive air, though it is not a festive time. Soon the loudspeaker calls out the charter flight to London. Goodbyes are said. A hundred or so head for the departure lounge. The few thousand others cram into their cars and drive back to Parklands, the Asian neighborhood of Nairobi. Their turn will likely come soon. The airport is the scene of a great uprooting of population - the departure of thousands of people of Indian and Pakistani descent from their homes in Kenya to new homes in Britain...