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==Africa==
A significant number of construction projects in [[British East Africa]] and [[Cape Colony|South Africa]], required vast quantities of labor, exceeding the availability or willingness of local tribesmen. Indentured Indians from India were imported, for such projects as the [[Uganda Railway]], as farm labor, and as miners.  They and their descendants formed a significant portion of the population and economy of Kenya and Uganda, although not without engendering resentment from others. [[Idi Amin]]'s [[Expulsion of Asians from Uganda|expulsion of the "Asians" from Uganda]] in 1972 was an expulsion of Indo-Africans.<ref name="Amin-Indophobia">{{cite journal |title=General Amin and the Indian Exodus from Uganda |first=Hasu H. |last=Patel |journal=Issue: A Journal of Opinion |volume=2 |issue=4 |year=1972 |pages=12–22 |doi=10.2307/1166488 |jstor=1166488 }}</ref>

The majority of the population of [[Mauritius]] are descendants of Indian indentured labourers brought in between 1834 and 1921. Initially brought to work the sugar estates following the abolition of slavery in the British Empire an estimated half a million indentured laborers were present on the island during this period. [[Aapravasi Ghat]], in the bay at [[Port Louis]] and now a [[UNESCO]] site, was the first [[British Empire|British colony]] to serve as a major reception centre for indentured Indians from India who came to work on [[plantation]]s following the abolition of slavery.<ref name="govt">{{cite news|url=http://www.govmu.org/English/ExploreMauritius/Pages/History.aspx#dutch|title=History|publisher=[[Government Portal of Mauritius]]|access-date=22 January 2015|archive-date=16 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016015207/http://www.govmu.org/English/ExploreMauritius/Pages/History.aspx#dutch}}</ref>