The « “A Corridor of Cities” a project » written with Sarah Nuttal and Abdul Maliq Simone received funding from the Institut pour la Recherche et le Développement (Paris) and CODESRIA (Dakar). I chose to look at Chinese restaurants in port -cities of the south-west Indian Ocean – Maputo, Dar-es-Salaam, Port-Louis and Le Port-Réunion – as an entry point to study the waves of Chinese migrations, processes of gendering and racialization, of creolization, the circulation of tastes and what constituted a « “Chinese” » décor. “’The Earth Is Ours’: Chinese Restaurants in Africa,” illustrated with photos was published by CODESRIA in 2002.