The NY Times reports:

The courtyard in front of the Zambia China Mulungushi Textiles factory is so quiet, even at midday, that the fluttering of the ragged Chinese and Zambian flags is the only sound hanging in the air.

The factory used to roar. From the day it opened more than 20 years ago, the vast compound had shuddered to the whir of rollers and the clatter of mechanical weaving machines spooling out millions of yards of brightly colored African cloth.

Today, only the cotton gin still runs, with the company's Chinese managers buying raw cotton for export to China's humming textile industry. Nobody can say when or even if the factory here will reopen.

“We are back where we started,” said Wilfred Collins Wonani, who leads the Chamber of Commerce here, sighing at the loss of one of the city's biggest employers. “Sending raw materials out, bringing cheap manufactured goods in. This isn't progress. It is colonialism.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/world/africa/21zambia.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all