Chinese in Africa

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Stephen Ellis, Africa's New Imperial Power; Africa is seen as El dorado in China--more than a million Chinese have settled on the continent. Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2014
online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-chinas-second-continent-by-howard-w-french-1402089810
(book review on Howard W French, China’s Second Continent; How a million migrants are building a new empire in Africa. Knopf, 2014)

Quote:

"Two hundred billion dollars. That was the estimated value of China's trade with Africa in 2012—more than 20 times the amount at the start of the century.

“Chinese settlers will surely play a key role in the evolving Sino-African relationship. Even in the heyday of the European empires, not many people left the colonial metropoles to settle in Africa. The main exceptions were Algeria and southern Africa. Nearly all of Algeria's million European settlers moved back to Europe at the time of independence in 1962. South Africa is a more complex case, as a fair proportion of its white population of 4.5 million—these days, distinctly nervous about their future—is descended from migrants who came as long as three and a half centuries ago, while the country is also home to a large community of Asian origin.

Note:
(a) Mozambique
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique
(section 1 Etymology)

(b) "Africa seems to have acquired an El Dorado status in China."
(i) El Dorado
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado
(ii) dorado (noun masculine, adjective masculine; from the verb dorar (“gild, give a golden color”))
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dorado

(c) Go Out policy  走出去战略
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Out_policy
(d) Zambia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambia
(section 1 Etymology)
(e) "Mr French writes, '. . . what I was witnessing in Africa is the higgledy-piggledy cobbling together of a new Chinese realm of interest. Here were the beginnings of a new empire.'"

higgledy-piggledy (adj, adv; origin unknown)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/higgledy-piggledy