People of Indian Origin have played very important role in Kenyan pharmaceutical industry

The Kenyan pharmaceutical industry is quite developed today and the Indian diaspora has played an important role in it. What I discussed in this talk is the « racialization » or ethnicisation of one profession and of one business sector in Kenya. Speaking at the GRFDT seminar on 7th April 2017 at Bharati College, Delhi University, Dr. Mathieu Quet, a researcher at CEPED-IRD (France) and CSSP-JNU said that Indians have contributed to the Kenyan Pharmaceutical industry since its inception in 1950s. In a post-colonial context still inhabited by history, how can we understand the connections between India, pharmacy and Kenya? What has been the role of the Indian community in the pharmaceutical capacity building? What are the representations attached to the pharmaceutical activity in Kenya and what is the influence of the Indian presence on the public framing of pharmaceutical issues? Dr. Quet