Abstract
From the “Indian issue” of colonial times to the “foreigners within” of the rise of nationalism in the African States, the destiny of the Indian diaspora in East Africa has seen both recurring and specific situations. All the articles presented here conclude that it is necessary to study sources that have hitherto been little or unexploited, and insist on the need to look beyond national borders when studying the Indians of East Africa.Recognised for the importance of their economic activity in the colonial trading system, the Indians were forced to scale their business down to the regional and than State level. It was only towards the end of the 1980s, with new opportunities arising from the opening up of African countries to the market economy, that the Indians were to see a new extension of their business activities on the international scale, and that new waves of migrants from the Indian sub-continent were to come and settle in turn on the eastern coasts of Africa.
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