As China’s ambitions in Africa have expanded in the past few years, a number of analysts have taken to assessing the continent with pins in the map, much as colonial cartographers did more than a century ago.

This time, however, the pins do not represent putative borders. Rather they reflect the progress of grandiose Chinese-backed infrastructure projects, in particular railways and roads, that promise to open up the continent.

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