

The temporary residents usually arrive without their spouses and families. This has propelled new development in Kenya's infrastructure with Chinese firms bringing in their own male workers to build roads. New interest in Kenya's natural resources has attracted over $1 billion of investment from Chinese firms. Around 400 survivors of these 20 shipwrecked Chinese sailors settled and married with local women.

These descendants of Zheng He's fleet occupy both Pate and Lamu Islands.
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Such evidence included the Asian features of the people in the village, plus Asian-looking porcelain artifacts.

Kristof found evidence that confirmed the man's story. However, the Chinese ran aground on a nearby reef. The Chinese had supposedly traded with the locals and had even loaded giraffes onto their ship to take back to China. He talked to an elderly man living in the village who said that he was a descendant of Chinese explorers who were shipwrecked there centuries before. In 1999, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times reported a surprising encounter on the island of Pate, where he found a village of stone huts. See also: Chinese people in Kenya, Indians in Kenya, and Pate Island Zheng He's fleet He married the daughter of one of the last Bubi kings, producing several Indo-Equatoguinean children. One example is immigrant East Indian laborer Francisco Kashu Alimama who remained in Moka after the death of his last living relative. While most of these servants returned to their homelands at the end of their servitude, a few remained, settling and marrying into the local population. The mid-19th century saw about 500 Chinese laborers and indentured servants, along with a handful from India stealthily imported to the island of Fernando Po through the once Portuguese owned Macau. The total number of survivors is unknown. Issues specific to this group include having no documentation of their births since not having been born in the local hospital spared their lives. The group submitted an official inquiry to both the Congolese and Japanese governments, to no avail. The organization has hired legal counsel seeking a formal investigation into the killings. Today, fifty Afro-Japanese have formed an association of Katanga Infanticide survivors. The practice forced many native Katangan mothers to hide their children by not reporting to the hospital to give birth. Subsequently, the circumstances would have brought the miners shame as most of them already had families back in their native Japan. Multiple testimonies of local people suggest that the infants were poisoned by a Japanese lead physician and nurse working at the local mining hospital. However, most of the mixed race infants resulting from these unions died, soon after birth. As a result, a number of Japanese miners fathered children with native Congolese women. In search of intimacy with the opposite sex, resulting in cohabitation, the men openly engaged in interracial dating and relationships, a practice embraced by the local society. Arriving without family or spouses, the men often sought social interaction outside the confines of their camps. Over a 10-year period, more than 1,000 Japanese miners relocated to the region, confined to a strictly male-only camp. See also: Asian Africans Democratic Republic of the Congo Katanga Afro-Japanese ĭuring the 1970s, an increased demand for copper and cobalt attracted Japanese investments in the mineral-rich southeastern region of Katanga Province. 1.9.1 DNA of South Africa's ethnic groups.
