This week, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary titled “Racism for Sale,” an investigation by Runako Celina and Henry Mhango into the Chinese video-making industry built on the exploitation of vulnerable Africans. Celina and...
This year’s CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala, the massively popular annual variety show aired since 1983, included blackfaced dancers in a performance titled “African Song and Dance,” alongside belly dancers, flamenco...
As China’s diplomacy, trade, and investment in African nations has increased in recent...
According to a recent government white paper, more than half of China’s $14.4 billion in...
At HuffPost Live, journalist Howard French speaks about the themes in his book...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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