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This is the cover of La chinafrique, the new book by French journalists Michel Beuret and Serge Michel. It features the photographs of Paolo Woods, whose work I mentioned yesterday. Of his subject matter Woods says: “For the 500,000 Chinese who have emigrated there is the promise of a 21st century Wild West. Some have struck gold and run large conglomerates that span whole regions of Africa, others are still selling their cheap goods on the burning hot roadsides of the poorest countries in the world.” Mr. Wood (pictured above) arrived in Nigeria from Shanghai in the 1970s. Today he owns over a dozen factories as well as restaurants, hotels and catering companies. He employs over 1600 workers. “He is an adviser to the President and has obtained the title of chief and the authorization to use police cars as his own.” In the above image the Nigerian gentleman holding the umbrella is actually a policeman. They are standing in front of “544 villas built at record speed on the Lekki peninsula near the headquarters of the Chevron oil company.”

This is the cover of La chinafrique, the new book by French journalists Michel Beuret and Serge Michel. It features the photographs of Paolo Woods, whose work I mentioned yesterday. Of his subject matter Woods says:

“For the 500,000 Chinese who have emigrated there is the promise of a 21st century Wild West. Some have struck gold and run large conglomerates that span whole regions of Africa, others are still selling their cheap goods on the burning hot roadsides of the poorest countries in the world.”

Mr. Wood (pictured above) arrived in Nigeria from Shanghai in the 1970s. Today he owns over a dozen factories as well as restaurants, hotels and catering companies. He employs over 1600 workers.

“He is an adviser to the President and has obtained the title of chief and the authorization to use police cars as his own.”

In the above image the Nigerian gentleman holding the umbrella is actually a policeman. They are standing in front of “544 villas built at record speed on the Lekki peninsula near the headquarters of the Chevron oil company.”