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China's second continent : how a million migrants are building a new empire in Africa / Howard W. French.

by French, Howard W,

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Chinese -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Immigrants -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Technical assistance, Chinese -- Africa.

Economic assistance, Chinese -- Africa.

Economic development -- Africa.

Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Emigration and immigration.

Africa -- Foreign relations -- China.

China -- Emigration and immigration.

China -- Foreign economic relations -- Africa.

9780307956989 (hc.)

0307956989 (hc.)

285 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Manifest destiny -- Mozambique -- Behold the future -- Friendly gestures -- Part Two: The devil and the deep blue sea -- Liberia: small fates -- Conakry: late to the banquet -- Freetown: instruments of magic -- Why Mali? -- Ghana: habits of democracy -- Part Three: Happy family -- Saints of the household -- Fat of the land.

"A revealing account of China's burgeoning presence in Africa, shaping the future of millions of people. The author engages not only with policy-shaping moguls and diplomats, but also with the ordinary men and women navigating the street-level realities of cooperation, prejudice, corruption, and opportunity forged by this seismic geopolitical development. The human face of China's economic, political, and human presence across the African continent. We meet a broad spectrum of China's dogged emigrant population, from those singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, commerce, and even environment (a self-made tycoon who harnessed Zambia's now-booming copper trade; a timber entrepreneur determined to harvest the entirety of Liberia's old-growth redwoods), to those just barely scraping by (a sibling pair running small businesses despite total illiteracy; a karaoke bar owner-cum-brothel madam), still convinced that Africa affords them better opportunities than their homeland. And we encounter African responses -- mine workers bitterly condemning their foreign employers, citing inadequate safety precautions and wages a fraction of their immigrant counterparts. The all-too-familiar echoes of colonial ambition -- exploitation of resources and labor; cut-rate infrastructure projects and dubious treaties. Why China is making the incursions it is, just how extensive its cultural and economic inroads are, what Africa's role in the equation is, and just what the ramifications for both parties -- and the watching world -- will be in the foreseeable future"--Provided by publisher.

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