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Howard W. French

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Howard W. French wrote from Africa for The Washington Post and at The New York Times was bureau chief in Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan, and China. He is the recipient of two Overseas Press Club awards and a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. He is the author of A Continent for the Taking: the tragedy and hope of Africa and China’s Second Continent: how a million migrants are building a new empire in Africa.

Books by Howard W. French

China's Second Continent

From the prize-winning investigative reporter and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China: a trenchant, immersive account of the burgeoning Chinese presence in Africa--a developing empire already shaping the future of the world's incipient superpower and its fastest growing continent.

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