The Tazara Line and the next Chinese Empire

[John Ashworth]

This article on Chinese expansion in Africa contains a nice description of a journey on the Tanzania-Zambia line, with some pictures.

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The Next Empire

All across Africa, new tracks are being laid, highways built,ports deepened, commercial contracts signed—all on an unprecedented scale, and led by China, whose appetite for commodities seems insatiable. Do China’s grand designs promise the transformation,at last, of a star-crossed continent? Or merely its exploitation? The author travels deep into the heart of Africa, searching for answers.

By Howard W. French
May 2010 ATLANTIC MAGAZINE