China's African Empire: The country that captured a continent

From the bestselling author of Dictatorland, this is the long and turbulent history of China’s growing influence over African states. People are increasingly fascinated by - and terrified of - the role of China in the modern world, and in this book Paul Kenyon gives a fascinating insight into how China operates overseas.He charts China's extraordinary success in gaining access to, and control over, Africa's natural resources, consumers, workforce and political institutions. Kenyon's narrative is full of shocking stories and extraordinary characters from both China and Africa.He tells of how Mao and his comrades cultivated new African leaders in the 1950s- Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, Julius Nyerere in Tanzania and a young Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe - seducing this new generation of statesmen with cheap supplies of arms and machinery, training in guerilla warfare and exaggerated displays of wealth at flag-waving receptions in Beijing. Kenyon takes us right up to the present day, examining Chi