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Black Ghosts : A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China

by Noo Saro-Wiwa

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · November 6, 2023

China – its poetry and economy

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Travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa traces the waves of African immigration to China from the 1950s onwards, meeting everyone from visa-overstayers to top surgeons, and examining the precarity of African lives there and the power imbalance in Sino-African relations.

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