Mining towns in Ghana, communities around the Karuma dam construction site in Uganda and the Thika Road construction site in Kenya among many other communities around the continent have hundreds of Chinese-looking babies of African women and girls without fathers.
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BBC Pidgin documentary in April revealed that many young women were struggling to take care of their mixed-race children left behind by Chinese illegal miners in Dunkwa in the Central Region.
About 4,500 Chinese miners were in this area until the government crackdown in 2013 against illegal mining activities that were destroying river bodies and vegetation. However, the children were most affected as they faced stigmatization while their mothers were ridiculed in their poor communities.
“When my daughter gave birth, we discovered that the child was Chinese-looking. We attempted to find the father of the boy but the Chinese had left,” said Wofa K, the grandfather of a 4-year-old Afro-Chinese boy called Evans Kofi China.