article_snippet: Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper carried a story Monday that Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reporters had been barred entry to Restaurant, being told by a guard at the entrance that "the time for Africans is over" when the journalists arrived at 7 p.m.
article_snippet: Only locals accompanied by Chinese, European or Indian patrons would be admitted, Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reported.
article_snippet: Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper also reported that two local politicians, "loyal patrons" Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko and former Cabinet Minister Raphael Tuju, had been admitted, the latter being a friend of the owner.
article_snippet: Kenyan social media users were quickly up in arms about the ban, taking to Facebook and Twitter to voice Kenyan social media users displeasure, using the hashtag #noblacksallowed.
article_snippet: Co-owner and restaurant manager Esther Zhao told the newspaper that the "no Africans at night" policy had the "no Africans at night" policy roots in security concerns.
article_snippet: Co-owner and restaurant manager Esther Zhao don't admit Africans that Co-owner and restaurant manager Esther Zhao don't know because you never know who is Al-Shabaab and who isn't," she said, referencing the Islamist militant group that is active in Kenya and neighboring Somalia.
article_snippet: China is the largest outside investor in African economies but resentment against Chinese in Kenya and other African nations is significant as many Africans often regard Chinese businesses as, in the words of one Chinese journalist, "resource predators" or "environmental vandals.
article_snippet: One Kenyan reporter commenting on The restaurant's ban likened the policy to a new form of colonialism in Africa.
article_snippet: There is this Chinese restaurant next to Nairobi hospital  and my two colleagues Patrick Mayoyo and Dennis Onsarigo and ...
highlights_snippet: Restaurant was criticized for having discriminatory policies barring black Africans .
  
highlights_snippet: Kenyan Twitter and Facebook users criticized the establishment .