'Uhuru Street' by MG Vassanji

In this loosely-linked collection of short stories, published by Heinemann in 1991, Moyez Vassanji, now a resident of Toronto, gives readers of African fiction a picture of the lifestyle of the Indian community of Dar es Salaam over a period of about forty years, beginning in the 1950s. One of the sixteen tales describes a young man, an illegal temporary immigrant to Germany, masquerading as a refugee in order to make a life beyond Africa for himself and his family. But the final tale is of an Uhuru Street resident who has returned to Tanzania to stay.