The History of Chinese Presence in Nigeria (1950s–2010s)
Shaonan Liu, "The History of Chinese Presence in Nigeria (1950s–2010s) "
English | ISBN: 1032279664 | 2022 | 182 pages | PDF | 22 MB
English | ISBN: 1032279664 | 2022 | 182 pages | PDF | 22 MB
As the first book-length work on the history of Chinese presence in Nigeria, this book examines how Chinese migrants and the Nigerian state, workers, traders, and consumers interacted with and influenced one another from the mid twentieth century to the early twenty-first century.
Based on a combination of archival sources and oral history interviews, this book argues that the significant Chinese presence in Nigeria―Chinese-owned factories, commodities, and entrepreneurs―is not as recent a phenomenon as it might appear. As early as the 1950s, an influential yet understudied group of Chinese entrepreneurs moved to Nigeria, set up factories and gradually came to dominate some of the country’s key manufacturing industries such as textile and enamelware over subsequent decades. Such dominance remained unchallenged until the coming of mainland Chinese traders with their made-in-China goods in the late 1990s, dramatically changing the structure and influential pattern of the Chinese in Nigeria. The research also emphasizes African (Nigerian) agency in shaping this Chinese presence, both economically and culturally.
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