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Moroccan Mustapha Nijai, 1992

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Moroccan Mustapha Nijai, 1992

Mustapha Nijai displays some of the French–Moroccan food served at his restaurant, Flappers, in Thorndon, Wellington. Mustapha arrived in 1979 after meeting his New Zealand-born wife in Scotland.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

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Carl Walrond, Africans – Africans in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/707/moroccan-mustapha-nijai-1992 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.