A Chinese restaurant in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been shut down and its owners summoned by authorities after it emerged it was discriminately excluding black patrons, reports said Wednesday.
The restaurant became the focus of city authorities after furious residents took to social media to denounce an apparently racist policy of not allowing African patrons to eat there after 5pm -- pushing #RacistRestaurant, #NoBlacksHere and #TheChineseInvasion to be top trending topics.
The owners of the restaurant said the measure had been put in place following a robbery operation by some blacks in 2013, and have apologised for causing any offence incurred in the process.