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PAUL WEINBERG/PANOS PICTURES FOR TIME
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Workers off-load imported sacks of Vietnamese long grain rice at the
Mombasa port. As recently as the 1950s, seagoing freighters thronged to East
Africa's largest port, off-loading boozy Western seamen and picking up African
treasures
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MOMBASA, KENYA
In the 15th century, Zheng He's fleet went to Africa seeking exotic treasures. The Chinese still do
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