China's Second Continent - How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa – Howard W. French
- In English. First published in 2014.
Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting—conducted in Mandarin, French, and Portuguese, among other languages—French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth as he 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. With incisiveness and empathy.
-> Quite a (page turner) book... a scarry one at it, depiciing how China carefully, and systematically, advance its agenda in Africa and push one way deals under the motto "don't ask, don't tell".
Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting—conducted in Mandarin, French, and Portuguese, among other languages—French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth as he 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. With incisiveness and empathy.
-> Quite a (page turner) book... a scarry one at it, depiciing how China carefully, and systematically, advance its agenda in Africa and push one way deals under the motto "don't ask, don't tell".