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- Title
LA RÉVOLUTION DES PRODUITS CHINOIS EN AFRIQUE CONSOMMATION DE MASSE ET NOUVELLE CULTURE MATÉRIELLE.
- Authors
KERNEN, ANTOINE; MOHAMMAD, GUIVE KHAN
- Abstract
Although Sino-African trade has increased significantly during the last fifteen years, this article aims to examine the consequences of the arrival of Chinese goods in the daily life of African societies. Omnipresent, even in the most remote villages, they coincide with Africa entering an era of mass consumption. These goods are frequently analyzed through the sole lens of their cheap prices. Yet, they contribute in fact to the emergence of a new material culture. In this article, we look at African consumers of made in China, but also at African traders of the Chinese goods, as a key category of actors in this emerging material culture. It is eventually argued that African traders' activities also reconfigure power relations surrounding the access to extraversion.
- Publication
Politique Africaine, 2014, Issue 134, p111
- ISSN
0244-7827
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3917/polaf.134.0111