Black Ghosts

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dan Chiponda earns a scholarship to study in China and reluctantly leaves his native Zimbabwe for an uncertain future. Learning to take racial abuse in his stride he dates a fellow student Lai Ying who is attracted to his easy-going manner. He remains haunted by the weight of his mother's expectations encapsulated by the image of the African fish eagle. Things take a dramatic turn when Chinese students pour into the streets in an orgy of violence to drive Africans out of town. The situation in Nanjing only stabilises when attention turns to the mayhem that is unraveling in Tiananmen Square Beijing. But that is only the beginning of Dan's troubles with the 'Campus Gestapo' loan sharks in Hong Kong and the shock of his family getting caught up in the violence by</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mugabe's war vets. Black Ghosts was inspired by stories of Africans living in China in the 1980s and in particular by the little known incident in Nanjing where African and Chinese students engaged each other in a violent battle just months before the Tiananmen Square massacre.</span></p><p></p><p></p>