• Africa Movies

• Human Rights Movies

China's economic boom is resulting in the biggest scramble for Africa since the end of European colonialism. Thousands of Chinese workers are now in Central Africa, buying up copper and cobalt.Reporter Aidan Hartley and producer Tom Porter begin their journey at a Chinese-owned mining complex. Locals tell Hartley that Chinese investment is fueling an economic boom in Zambia, bringing jobs and also skills that they can pick up. But many Zambians also accuse the Chinese of being so focused on making money out of Africa that they do not care about the local people.

Judging by how the Chinese government and corporations take care of their own people in China, I didn’t expect much importance to be put on human rights and child labor laws in Africa. It will be the job of international bodies to enforce regulations, but who will put pressure on those institutions if we don’t know what’s going on? Again, the first step is watching the movie.