Afro example sentences

Here, playing cricket became a sign of superior social and racial status, and the Afro-Caribbean population was discouraged from participating in organised club cricket, which remained dominated by white plantation owners and their servants.For example, the Governor of the Bombay Presidency while dealing with an application from the Islam Gymkhana for land on Bombay s seafront wrote: we can be certain that in a short time we shall get a similar application from some Hindu Gymkhana I don t see how we are to refuse these applicants; but I will refuse any more grants once a Gymkhana has been established by each nationality .