In some countries, you might familiar with little China, or Little India, but in China, there’s a place called little Africa. Hidden in one of Guangzhou is the center of Old Town’s most exciting corner in China that you might not know.
A community consisting of about 20 thousand traders from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana and other countries in Africa are often seen in these area.
Located near the Central Selling Buying Wholesale Clothing Exports Canaan, African Small or Chocolate City as it is often called by the locals despite sounding somewhat racist emerged in the 1990s.
It was a time when traders flocked to the southern Chinese province dubbed the ‘world factory’. Social groups and religious communities is growing rapidly and many traders will be willing to tell you about their life stories good and bad in Guangzhou.