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Changing face of Biashara Street as Chinese edge out Indian traders

Biashara Street in Nairobi, where billionaires such as Manu Chandaria started from. [Willis Awandu, Standard]

Kenyans of South Asia origin, popularly called Indians, will perhaps get the longest chapter when the history of the development of trade is East Africa is finally written.

Already there are trivial publications about that on the shelves of university libraries and still, Indians occupy a big chunk of the write-ups.

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