I'm thinking along the lines of the Pied-Noirs, but as we know they left. I'm wondering what happened to any of the, say, European Africans who were now told that the home their family had lived in for generations wasn't there's anymore. Is there any books or articles that could give me insight into their thoughts during Decolonization and what happened to them after it, if they chose to stay behind.
I can provide no article - there's, curiously enough, a lack of them (even in Italian!) - but I think I can tell you what happened to the Italians living in the colonies. I'd personally like to do that because this is a subject which is not usually at all discussed, not even among Italians; most of them sadly aren't even aware of the issue.
So, Italians in Libya would make a fine example. Between 1934 and 1940, they made up 13% of the country's population (there were some 110,000 of them) and were nearly half of the inhabitants in Tripoli and Bengasi.
After the war, many returned home but some 44,000 chose to stay behind. However, on September 1st, 1969, all changed when Muhammad Gheddafi came to power after having deposed King Idris. On July 21, 1970 all the assets of the Italian residents had, by force of a decree of the newly-established Libyan Revolutionary Command Council, been confiscated; the 'colonists' were ordered to leave with whatever they could carry on their persons while their land, shops, homes, furniture, cars were being requisitioned and their social security accounts frozen (as far as I know, no compensation was ever paid).
The last Italians had left the country on October 7th, 1970; this date marked a national holiday - the "Day of Vengeance" - until 2011. Only in 2007 these people were allowed to visit the place they lived and grew up in.
Look here, here, here and here for some photos of the exodus (this is all I could find!).
Here's a short video about their ordeal; unfortunately it's in Italian w/o subtitles.
I know this because a couple of family friends come from there - nobody told me about that in school. There were also many Italians in Eritrea and Somalia, but most left after the war or (in the case of Somalia) in 1991; there are still a thousand of them left in Eritrea with their schools and all, one of them was the grandmother of a close friend.
Other than the obvious white populations in South Africa and Namibia, there is one large group of White Africans that comes to mind: those in Kenya. While around half of them did return to the UK after independence, an estimated 35000 White Kenyan citizens remain in Kenya to this day. Many of these White Kenyans tend to be of British aristocratic stock, and own large tracts of land, particularly in the White Highlands. While wealthy, they also remain very distant and isolated from their black counterparts.
The former Portuguese colonies in particular had very large white populations. Angola at its peak had 350,000 Portuguese residents, and while many of them fled either back to Portugal or to South Africa, there still remains a 120,000-strong Portuguese population in Angola. The history of Portuguese people in Mozambique is very similar to that of Portuguese Angolans.
