China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa
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Beijing has become one of the most important commercial partners on the African continent, overtaking the United Kingdom as a trading and investment partner. Chinese firms tend to see possibility where many outsiders see only instability. Because China has no colonial history on the continent and attaches no political conditions to its deals, it has been building roads, railways and other infrastructure in places that Western companies and governments had largely neglected.
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The authors travel the continent following these projects, from the Chinese capital to Khartoum, Algiers and Brazzaville. Their reporting weighs what this influence might mean: a shift that could let African nations shape their own futures and turn a region long dismissed as hopeless into a serious force on the world stage.
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