The Africans Looking to Make it in China

Some Africans have chosen to subvert the ChinAfrica relationship by setting up shop in  Guangzhou.  Will they prove to make more profit than they would in markets at home?

Source: CNN: Marketplace Africa

Listening There: Scenes from Ghana is a video compilation from the travel research of Mabel O. Wilson & Peter Tolkin. The video explores Kejetia Central Market, Kumasi and former American Embassy, Accra. In this cross comparison, we see that the rich and poor of Ghana have continued to occupy separate worlds — worlds nonetheless interdependent. Ghana’s modernist architectural icons now sit within fields of hermetically sealed air-conditioned towers skinned in purple, blue and gray reflective glass. These generic buildings house the finance institutions and hotels, the communication, energy and trading companies that tether Ghana to the global economy. They accommodate the organizational conduits that connect to China, India, the Americas and elsewhere, and that channel the goods that flood the streets and fill the markets of regional centers like Kumasi.

At every corner, cities are peppered with cellular communication networks and with brightly colored kiosks vending phone cards. And in between the commercial and governmental districts, like an unstoppable flow, seep the metal-roofed slums housing the millions who’ve journeyed from country to city seeking work. Roadways are jammed with people moving from home to work and back again

Source: Listening There