Throwing Maos: Money, Music, and African Nightlife in Guangzhou
In this reflective, descriptive essay, I explore a vital yet underexamined dimension of African life in China: nightlife. Through theContinue Reading
Category: Africans in China
2026 UPDATE: Thirteen years later, people still want a number
I originally wrote this post in 2013 because journalists—and quite a few academics—kept asking me the same apparently simple question:Continue Reading
EATING IN A CHINESE VILLAGE APARTMENT AS A BLACKMAN, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!! BLACK IN CHINA
Eating in a Chinese village apartment as a Blackman…. In this video, I showed up in a Chinese village andContinue Reading
In Search of African Factories in China
Ep18 on How Nigerians Survive in China
Yasser Azali’s China story
Many Africans who have lived, studied or worked in China say the experience helped them acquire new skills, knowledge andContinue Reading
For Africans in China the country is a dreamland and an accidental destination
By Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo Although most Africans in East Asia travelled to China in the past two decades, some foundContinue Reading
Being black and mixed-race in China
Usual disclaimers about the often bad and typically biased reporting from VICE apply! Still an interesting piece and topic (andContinue Reading
New theoretical dialogues on migration in China: introduction to the special issue
Special Issue: New Theoretical Dialogues on Migration in China ABSTRACT This special issue emerges from the observation that the currentContinue Reading
