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China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa Howard W. French
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

May 21, 2014 - French's book China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, was released today. Oct 22, 2013 - To fuel economic expansion, businessmen and traders competed over investments, raw materials, and markets, backing railroad construction in China, digging copper mines in Africa, and selling sewing machines to Pacific Islanders. With their own continental empire to manage, American expansionists seemed more interested in indirect imperialism—informal dominance through economic power—than direct imperialism, which entailed hands-on governance. Jun 12, 2013 - A definite line was drawn between the two continents by the geographer Ptolemy (85-165 C.E.), indicating Alexandria along the Prime Meridian and making the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. Mar 1, 2014 - 3 million, per capita GDP $2,000) consists chiefly of the capital city of Nouakchott, which has swelled to an estimated 2 million inhabitants, up from 800,000 in 1999, and a vast desert hinterland of about 400,000 miles in area, roughly equal to the .. China, which has been steadily investing in the continent since the mid 2000's. May 1, 2014 - From 2003 to 2008, he was Shanghai bureau chief of The New York Times. May 29, 2014 - Please go to NPR website to read/listen the whole interview about the book. His latest book, China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, will be released this May. Read more about Chinese aid, economic, and soft power investments in Africa, via CDT. China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, by Howard French, Random House, 285 pages, $27.95. China's second continent : how a million migrants are building a new empire in Africa. Africa and heavily structured clan groups in the Horn of Africa, the Sahelian kingdoms, and autonomous city-states such as the Swahili coastal trading towns of the East African coast, whose trade network extended as far as China. Ever since cocaine Bush commissioned AFRICOM, the MIC have been actively involved in regime change and military building in Africa. May 18, 2014 - I had to read a New York Times op-ed piece for a critical perspective. French, author of 'China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa' and associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.