Thanks Stephen and Pambazuka for your thoughtful review of my new book, ‘The Dragon's Gift’.

Forgive me for saying, however, that as important (and overlooked) as China's investment in African manufacturing is, I don't believe I say anywhere in the book that it has been higher than China's investment in mining over the past five years.

We don't actually have any data on sectoral breakdown of Chinese investment in Africa, and if we did, I doubt very much it would be higher than mining. 


Best wishes and thanks again.

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