Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
by Noo Saro-Wiwa
🏆 Winner of the 2025 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award
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“This is a striking book in which Saro-Wiwa goes out in search of so-called ‘black ghosts,’ the African economic migrants who live and work in the People’s Republic of China. A lot of these individuals are legitimate traders and professionals, but there’s also an underclass of people living a precarious existence slightly outside of the law because of visa problems and other red tape.” Read more...
Tom Parfitt, Journalist
