Crackdown in Guangzhou’s “Little Africa” Stokes Fear
As China’s diplomacy, trade, and investment in African nations has increased in recent...
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LatestJust Approaches? Africa’s Migrants in China
According to a recent government white paper, more than half of China’s $14.4 billion in...
China’s “Second Continent” And Cultural Collisions
At HuffPost Live, journalist Howard French speaks about the themes in his book...
Fake Drug Pipeline Undercuts Malaria Progress
The Wall Street Journal examines the global trade in fake, counterfeit and otherwise substandard malaria medication, in which China and particularly Guangzhou’s African community appear to play a substantial part. From...
Eastern Promise in Guangzhou’s Little Africa
While China’s presence in Africa attracts ever more attention, Kit Gillet explores the other side of the coin in Guangzhou’s “Little Africa”: “When it comes to Africa, the US and Europe think about aid,...
Foreigners in Guangzhou Protest Death of Expat
Foreigners living in China have been in the spotlight recently as the behavior of a few has inspired the government to crack down on the group as a whole. In Guangzhou, tensions have flared between expats and authorities when a...
Chinatowns and "Chocolate City": The Magic of Diasporas
Amidst a climate of widespread hostility towards immigrants in rich nations, The Economist points out the economic and other advantages diasporic populations bring to both host and home countries. Overseas Chinese, who taken...
China Cracks Down on African Immigrants and Traders
The Guardian visits southern Guangzhou and speaks with African immigrants who have experienced both discrimination from locals and a crackdown by police in recent months: Emma, the community leader, had just returned from...
Video: African Boots in Beijing
Jeremy Goldkorn, of Danwei, has posted a film he made in 2006 with Luke Mines about Afrika United, a team of Africans playing in a football championship league in Beijing, China: African Boots of Beijing: Part 1 from Danwei on...
Nigerian Anger over China Deaths
The BBC reports on growing tensions between Nigeria and China over treatment of Nigerian immigrants imprisoned in China: Nigeria MPs have asked the government to investigate the status of Chinese residents in the country, saying...
Out of Africa and into China, Emigres Struggle
South Africa’s Mail and Guardian reports on the rising tensions between residents of Guangzhou and the growing number of African immigrants moving to their city: In the past few years, tens of thousands of African and Arab...
Big Trouble In China’s Chocolate City
From Toronto Star: GUANGZHOU, China–The scene stunned the local, law-abiding Chinese: They’d never seen anything like it. At a busy intersection in the heart of this southern city recently, angry Africans carried a...
Nigeriatown
On the New Yorker’s website, Evan Osnos narrates an audio slideshow about so-called “Chocolate City” of African immigrants in Guangzhou: In this issue of the magazine, Evan Osnos writes about African merchants...
“Chocolate City” – Africans Seek Their Dreams in China
Blogging for China translates a Southern Metropolis Daily report about the lives of African traders living in Guangzhou’s so-called Chocolate City: Religion and business are the two things that most closely bind Africans...
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