Chinese companies in Africa have a CSR problem

In Nigeria, a state government handed over 12,000 hectares of land to a Chinese investor without proper consultation and compensation to the farmers on the ground. Now the farmers are protesting.

Workers at a garment factory in Antananarivo, Madagascar (Source: Bloomberg)

In July 2014, angry residents of Murrua, an hinterland community in Mozambique, marched out and blocked the road linking a Chinese company to the port. They were angry that the company, Haiyu Mozambique Mining Company (HMMC), was extracting resources from its land without provid…