Chinese candidate a Shanghai surprise in Mali polls SEGOU - Unassuming and affable, election candidate Astan Coulibaly would be unremarkable on the campaign trail in Mali, except that as a Chinese national she has been hailed as an embodiment of racial harmony in the fractured west African nation. The 54-year-old, born Yu Hong Wei in the eastern Chinese metropolis of Shanghai, is competing for a constituency in the city of Segou, 230 kilometres (145 miles) northeast of Malian capital Bamako, in the November 24 parliamentary election. Now a naturalised Malian, she is thought to be the first Asian -- or at least one of the first -- to go into politics in Mali, a claim which cannot easily be verified in a country whose historical borders have shifted as much as its politics... Read full story...bit.ly/HURDRq
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:23:06 +0000
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