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Wednesday 22 April 2009

The rise of an African merchant class

From the New Yorker:

Evan Osnos, Letter from China, “The Promised Land,” The New Yorker, February 9, 2009, p. 50


“Guangzhou’s Canaan market and the rise of an African merchant class. Joseph Nwaosu, a Nigerian exporter (the writer has changed his name), has yet to acclimate to the winter damp of Guangzhou, on China’s southern coast.Merchants from Nigeria, Mali, Ghana, and other African countries are arriving in Guangzhou in large numbers. Since the Canaan Export Clothes Trading Center opened, six years ago, similar markets, filled with African buyers and Chinese sellers, have arisen along the same block.”

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