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How Chinese Business In Africa Is Challenging The West

How Chinese Business In Africa Is Challenging The West

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The Battle For Africa, the first in a two-part People & Power investigation into the effects of China’s increasing influence in Africa, premieres on Al Jazeera on Thursday, 28 August 2014.

Emmy-winning Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura travels to Kenya, to witness how the rise of Chinese business in Africa has changed the balance of power between African governments and the West. “African leaders can now look elsewhere for meaningful economic and political support,” says Sorious.

In Kenya, Chinese infrastructural projects include schools; thousands of kilometers of new roads; a new airport terminal; and a port terminal in Mombasa at the start of a $25 billion dollar railway line linking the capitals of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan.

“It is estimated that 30 percent of all new projects in Africa are the result of Chinese investment,” says Sorious. “Africa needs new infrastructure to speed up its development; China needs it to enable the free flow of mineral resources it needs from the continent.”