Our affiliate, China Talking Points, recently posted a short video called China in Africa, by Vimeo user Edward Bishop. It’s short on content, and seems like a preview or a pitch for something much meatier, but it’s well filmed, and full of the the sounds and colours of modern Ghana, where it’s set. Deborah Brautigam, author of The Dragon’s Gift, the definitive book on Sino-African relations, makes a brief appearance, but only to say that China has been involved in Africa for longer than is usually supposed. Hopefully a longer version of the documentary will appear soon.
Iain Manley
Iain studied journalism at the University of Cape Town, where communists were skinny professors who wore tweed. He arrived in China in 2007, at the end of an overland journey from London, documented at his overland travelogue. His first book, about the pirates, prostitutes and opium peddlers of old Singapore, was published last year, just before he left China, to travel back to South Africa, overland.
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