ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the resurgence of India’s interest in Africa since 1980, and focuses on the specific relations between India and Kenya. The new industrial powers of Asia have followed the same pattern as Western Europe—of sourcing markets and raw materials from the less industrialized parts of the world, especially in Africa and elsewhere in Asia. One of the conceptual issues that demands attention in any study of Indo-Kenyan relations is to distinguish between the role of Kenyan Indians and Indians from the subcontinent living in Kenya. The relationship between India and East Africa since the advent of globalization has not been interrogated in most studies. Small-scale actors in trade between Kenya and India are nevertheless able to overcome hegemonic relationships in trade between India and Kenya by combining market and nonmarket strategies, such as the use of social relationships both in India and Kenya.
