With twelve million inhabitants, Guangzhou, in southern China, is the third largest city after Shanghai and Beijing. Like the rest of globalised China, it attracts people from all over the world, among them many Africans. They are drawn there for trade and business, exporting low-cost Chinese products to Africa. Unfortunately, many of them struggle to integrate into Chinese society, where prejudices still run deep. Even if Africans speak fluent Mandarin, they are not always welcome in Guangzhou.