Media News - Monday, July 13, 2009
‘The Oriental Post’: Africa’s first Chinese newspaper
The first daily newspaper printed in Chinese has arrived in Botswana. Chinese entrepreneur Miles Nan, resident in the country for ten years, has set up Africa's first newspaper in Chinese. There are currently between 5,000 and 6,000 Chinese inhabitants - out of a population of 1.8 million - living in Botswana. Primarily attracted by the 1990s housing boom, this small community has moved on from construction to textile production, and recently into setting up small shops, already quite familiar to the West, full of trademark 'Made in China' merchandise. With few of them able to read English, Mr Nan felt it was about time that the Chinese community got their own newspaper. (France 24 - The Observers)
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