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Post independence: Not so rosy(?)

The article seems to give an impression that (just about) everything was OK for Indians in Tanzania post independence, but Indian_diaspora_in_Southeast_Africa#History says: "Many Parsis settled in Zanzibar to work as merchants and civil servants for the colonial government. They formed one of the largest Parsi communities outside of India, a community that survived until the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964. Indians in Zanzibar founded the one locally-owned bank in all of the African Great Lakes, Jetha Lila, which closed after the Revolution when its customer base left." There must be a reason why they left or maybe they got thrown out?
During the 1990s I met a visting scientist from USA. He was an Indian born and raised in Tanzania. At some point after the independence he started feeling that black Africans wanted the country for themselves. The future prospects for others didn't seem good. Hence he emmigrated to USA, probably in the early 1970s, possibly via UK or something (I don't remember). During his visit in Norway in the 1990s he held a lecture that was also attended by some black students from Tanzania. During the lecture he briefly told his story including the reason for his emmigration. Some of the black students from Tanzania reacted in what I observed as a hostile way.
--Ohedland (talk) 19:46, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]