Africans with American importing various guns? On the contrary (8)

I believe the answer is:

ugandans

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'africans' is the definition.
(Ugandan is an example)

'various guns? on the contrary' is the wordplay.
'various' is an anagram indicator.
'on' indicates putting letters inside (as in clothing 'on' a person).
'the contrary' becomes 'anda' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'guns' is an anagram of 'ugns'.
'ugns' placed around 'anda' is 'UGANDANS'.

'with american importing' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for ugandans that I've seen before include "People from Kampala, say" , "Eg, natives of Kampala" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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