A Kenyan Painter Casts a Critical Eye on China’s Role in Africa

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And Chinese officials are noticing.

In 2014, Mr. Soi said that four Chinese officials came to his studio and started lecturing him about how "ungrateful" he was for "all that China is doing for Kenya." Mr. Soi, who has visited Hong Kong but not mainland China, said the group handled the paintings lying around the studio roughly and marred some of the artwork that was on display.

"To me, that was a sign that the Chinese are watching," Mr. Soi said. "I have been told numerous times that there are people in the government and in the embassy here in Nairobi who don't like my work."


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/world/africa/michael-soi-kenya-china.html

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