happy, excited kids and make them chant something so demeaning? those questions sent me on a journey to an industry that s exploiting kids across africa. i was shocked by what i heard along the way, but in the end ifound my answers. done i a writer and journalist, and although i now based in london i lived in china for several years, studying chinese and working in beijing. i loved it there but i didn t always feel welcome. as a black woman in a country with a chinese mac tiny black population, i experienced countless incidences of racism; sometimes indirectly but often write in my face. i soon realised i wasn t the only one. see, i wasn t new to racism before china, it s a global problem, but i had never been anywhere that made it quite so difficult to speak out. i felt black people in china needed a space to unpack these experiences, so i decided to take a risk. i created that liberty china, an online space and website to start that conversation. hello and welcome to anot
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