Africa Matters

Karimjee Jivanjee: The Merchants of East Africa

ERIC TOROKA In many ways the modern economy of Tanzania wasbuilt by the Asian immigrants who arrived from thewest coast of India over a period of four hundredyears, albeit with a huge influx from the late 19thcentury. There are only a very limited number of accounts ofthis story, and even fewer which focus on the historyof our successful extended…

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