"We are back where we started. Sending raw materials out, bringing cheap manufactured goods in. This isn't progress. It is colonialism." WILFRED COLLINS WONANI, head of the Chamber of Commerce in Kabwe, Zambia, where a
Chinese company once manufactured finished cloth but now
exports only raw cotton.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
the new colonials...
Slide Show: New Power in Africa
Manufacturing has suffered in Africa as cheap Chinese goods flood the market, eliminating needed jobs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/20/world/20070820ZAMBIA_index.html?th&emc=th
Manufacturing has suffered in Africa as cheap Chinese goods flood the market, eliminating needed jobs.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/08/20/world/20070820ZAMBIA_index.html?th&emc=th
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