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 Guangzhou
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
Inside China’s Little Africa (Ep. 3) | Food, Hustle & Scams in Guangzhou
This recent video takes viewers through Xiaobei, Guangzhou’s best-known African commercial area. Moving between restaurants, street markets and businesses, ZimbabweanContinue Reading
The scramble for Xiaobei: epistemic extraction, racialised knowledge, and representation in Africa–China urban encounters
Roberto CASTILLO Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong ABSTRACT: In this article, I examine the scramble to represent Xiaobei,Continue Reading
In Search of African Factories in China
Ep18 on How Nigerians Survive in China
Nigerians are still in Guangzhou
A random enquiry in a Plaza where many Nigerians trade.
The Weight Women Carry: Research on the Visible and Invisible Baggage in Suitcase Trade between China and Africa
ABSTRACT Grounded in ethnographic observations, this article offers a commentary on the visible and invisible dynamics of mobility between ChinaContinue Reading
Academic (Im)mobility: Ecology of Ethnographic Research and Knowledge Production on Africans in China
By Kudus Adebayo Abstract: Since the emergence of China in the geopolitical and economic spaces of Africa, academics have followedContinue Reading
Africans in Guangzhou: Is the ethnic enclave model applicable in the Chinese context?
Xin Jin, Gideon Bolt, and Pieter Hooimeijer for Cities Highlights Existing studies have been limited in the interferences they couldContinue Reading
