People from India used to have a huge presence in East Africa. In many places, they were the educated elite and comprised the entrepreneurial, mercantile and professional classes. They did a lot of the skilled work during the rather short era of European colonialism. A lot of them got chased out after independence as sub-Saharan Africa went on its racist binge.
A lot of Africa would benefit from a healthy dose of “diversity is our strength” reprogramming.
You are right. Many were massacred by the newly independent countries in Africa.
The new countries never missed a change to miss a chance...and its why most are still pathetically poor no matter how many Trillions have been spent there since independence.
I think a subplot of Mississippi Masala was the fact that the Indians running the hotel in Mississippi were refugees from Uganda.