Note

1 Time and again, I have been asked what kind of low-paid labour Africans are undertaking in China.There seems to be a lingering assumption that Africans are attempting to become blue-collar or farm workers. In a conference in 2013, a Korean academic of migration was adamant that Africans were working in the fields of China, growing food, and displacing Chinese in low-paid jobs.This is far from reality. In all my years in China, I have never meet one single African looking for a job growing vegetables. Actually, one of my Sudanese contacts once told me:‘the future is in the Chinese economy. We Africans all come to do business here, and we bring a lot of money and expertise in trading. Americans my age, on the other hand, come to China to teach English to children. Who do you think will profit more from China’s rise?’

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