The Chinese are taking over the African continent. They are building highways, railway lines, harbours, dams, bridges, mines, airports and shopping centres. Soon all Africans will have rice as a staple diet after the continent has gone through this second wave of colonisation. This time, though, it is being colonised by a single country – a resource-hungry giant from the East.
It sounds terrible, to be sure, but is this Asian invasion really such a bad thing?
The Voetspore team have enjoyed travelling extensively on the continent for 15 years. In this time we have completed five transcontinental routes, and visited major cities such as Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Lusaka, Kampala, Luanda and Kinshasa several times. We have also been fortunate enough to see the immense change that has taken place…
