A bestselling Taiwanese author died thirty-five years ago. Today, millions of Chinese readers, and thousands of Chinese tourists, get their first glimpse of Africa through her eyes. But did Sanmao’s Africa exist?
7 years.
6 countries.
4 continents.
Find out why I crisscrossed the world chasing one of China’s most elusive writers.
Read: Issue 002 of Now Voyager
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In the Phosphorus-rich Western Sahara, the government in Rabat used the pandemic as cover for a political crackdown.
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Immunologist Fatiha El Hilali started trying to counter fake news about vaccines after seeing a close friend die from Covid-19 (Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng)
“If I can be provocative, shouldn’t we be doing this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatments, no resuscitation?” said Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at Cochin hospital in Paris. “A bit like as it is done elsewhere for some studies on Aids. In prostitutes, we try things because we know that they are highly exposed and that they do not protect themselves.”
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