https://www.scmp.com/rss/516332/feed Li Yijuan is a writer and journalist. Her passions include cross-cultural dynamics, the ills of modernity, collective trauma and weird food. Most of the time, she writes fiction and non-fiction about everything she encounters or is about to encounter. Recently, she has been fascinated with China-Africa topics. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com By the age of 50, former English teacher Hu Jieguo had moved to Nigeria and built a multimillion-dollar Chinese-style hotel, at a time when East Asian faces were uncommon there. Now in his 70s, Hu lives in Lagos surrounded by government-funded, submachine-gun-toting guards. Such protection came as Hu was granted a chieftain title in 2001, a rare honour for a non-African. Hu remarked at the time that there was nothing extraordinary about the title, except that he could now “see the governor and... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3230814/first-chinese-chief-africa-does-he-and-others-him-wield-any-real-influence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3230814/first-chinese-chief-africa-does-he-and-others-him-wield-any-real-influence?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:45:13 +0000