The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa: The Asian Contribution
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RQ2BCR |
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| Number of Pages | : | 275 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Robert G. Denied access to productive land and sensing economic opportunity, they turned to business. Focusing on the large South Asian community in East Africa, he relates how, over a century, they built a philanthropic culture of great magnitude, and how it finally collapsed under the ascendency of increasing state regulation and policies directed against non-African communities.Compelled by poverty to seek better oppurtunities overseas, most Asians arrived in East Africa as peasant farmers. The sense of nonracial social responsibility cultivated social, medical, and educational faci
A significant contribution to the history of Asians in East Africa and to the history of East Africa as a whole."—R. Ramchandani, Emeritus Fellow (U.G.C.), former professor and director, Centre of East African Studies, University of Bombay, India"Against the meager nature of the literature on the subject, the study by the well-known expert on India-Africa relations, Professor Robert Gregory, fills in significant measure the void that exists in the literature on the subject. Gregory’s account makes clear that beyond the strictly economic cost, the expulsion of Asians from Uganda and Zanzibar and their exodus from Tanzania and Kenya have had severe costs to civil society. Y. Thus, corporate philanthropy as practiced in the West, was absent from Asian communities. This is a product of skillful marshalling of facts and figures drawn fromofficial and private sources. The book is well-researched and rich in prim
Robert G. Gregory is professor of history at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University.