Urban Africa, Made in China follows a year-long trip throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa in 2014, where I photographed Chinese construction projects and the workers who built them.

These images form a broader portrait of urbanization occurring across the African continent - shaped by the complexities and dilemmas between China and Africa, formal and informal development, nature and artifice, and the urban culture of re-appropriation from the legacy of its colonial past. 

Over time, these images stand as isolated pieces that are rich in meaning: an unfinished concrete highway pier, unearthed landscape for a new highway, construction machinery amidst a pristine forest, a lone security guard in an empty housing development, migrant workers caught between two worlds, a restaurant full of Chinese décor - like testaments of civilization with the contradictions and complexities of globalization laid bare.

Beyond the simplified narratives propagated by media, I aim to reveal an intimate story that portrays globalization at work on a regional level - telling a broader story of global China that is unfolding across the world. 

2014