From BBC NEWS:
This week, BBC’s Africa Live goes east – to examine the relationship between Africa and China, one of the world’s fastest growing economies.
Economic and political links between China and Africa go back a long way, but the ties have deepened over the past five years.
In Timbuktu, Durban or Nairobi, in almost every African market, you can buy something Chinese – cloth, rice, radios and cooking pots.