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Are Africans benefiting from the billions China is spending on the world's poorest continent?

Are Africans benefiting from the billions China is spending on the world's poorest continent?

We look at China's role in Africa and ask whether Africans are benefiting from the billions the world's second largest economy is investing in the world's poorest continent.

Nnenna Obibuaku reports from the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Nigeria and we hear from Martyn Davies, chief executive of the consulting company Frontier Advisory in South Africa. Plus Neo Simutanyi, director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue in Lusaka, tells Justin Rowlatt that there are questions over what benefit Chinese investment brings to Africa.

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18 minutes

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Thu 30 Dec 2010 08:32GMT

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  • Thu 30 Dec 2010 08:32GMT

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