Doing business with Africans these years

By chance, I came into contact with jeans industry. My clients are all from Africa, including Morocco, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Togo, Niger, Cameroon and Angola, covering almost Central Africa, West Africa, North Africa, South Africa and East Africa. Some are very small and pitiful. Almost as big as Guangzhou, I accidentally set foot on another country.

Walking in Xiaobei, Guangzhou, if you take a nap and change time and space instantly, you think you have come to Africa. The resident African population here is almost 10000, and all the booths and office buildings are occupied by Africans. Most people come with the dream of getting rich. They say Guangzhou is very prosperous. Compared with the dry weather in Africa, desert areas and various conditions are simply paradise. Many Africans actually came here illegally. They hardly go out during the day and start activities at night. Unfortunately, if they meet the police on the road to check their passports, they will leave immediately. People from Nigerian countries have the largest population in this field, and many of them have long-term contracts in China. Most men in this country are glib and sweet-talking, and many little girls who work in this field have been cheated by them. Some even gave birth to children, so we often see some children with curly hair and not very yellow skin speaking fluent Chinese on the road.

Ok, twists and turns, tell me about the Africans I met in Sanyuanli in recent years. I made an order for jeans in a shopping mall in Sanyuanli, which has three floors and 1000 stalls. If Africans want to make jeans, they will come here first. Because the pants here are very cheap, ranging from several yuan to tens of yuan. If the order here exceeds that of 40 yuan, there is almost no business, because there is no need for such good quality. Why did they buy such cheap pants? Because their country is short of water resources and has money to buy water for bathing, it is better to buy a pair of pants. So pants are like fast-moving consumer goods in their place. When I first came to the market, I saw almost all the black people with long white coats and beards. Just as they recognize us, most Africans believe in Islam and they need to pray five times a day. Wherever they are, whenever the time is up, they will pray. They only eat breakfast and dinner. They don't eat Chinese food or pork. Their favorite food is pickled fish in China. Many Africans who come here to do business have little culture. They can speak French and their own local language. Why do they speak French? Because they were once French colonies. The language of our communication is English. When I first came here, I spoke grammar and seemingly acceptable English, but I'm sorry, people didn't understand. Like, where are you? The usual saying is, where are you? They will say, where are you? After four years' edification in this environment, my English level has returned to the primary school level. Maybe I can only understand their language at the same level as them because I do business with them. In this market, no matter children or aunts, or fast food sellers or porters, they can speak a few words of English. For example, some niggers are stingy, and China people will joke that you are a cheapskate, haha, yes, you are British. Once, an aunt opposite me talked with a nigger about an order. Black people say how long it will take to make pants, and my aunt may say, tomorrow, what should I do? How do you express it in ten days? The witty aunt stretched out her hands and counted from the first finger. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, I looked at the aunt across the street gesticulating, and finally the black dress person understood. All right. They won.

Around 2004, anyone who was lucky in this market made a lot of money, because Africans just came here and didn't know other places. At that time, the information was not so developed, so when they came, they would only come here to order directly. At that time, there was a stall with a geographical location less than 10 square meter, which needed more than 5000 yuan. We sometimes chat with people across the street. They are a group of jeans makers who came early. They said that no matter what goods they made, they could sell them at that time and robbed them. Now a friend of my good sister says that she sits on a pile of goods and looks like garbage. She doesn't know how many goods she sells every day, and she can earn thousands of dollars every day. At that time, customers paid the full amount of dollars when placing orders, because they didn't know how to deposit and where to put the dollars. Therefore, as long as the goods are bought, it is safest to give them to the supplier. At that time, there was no contract, and hundreds of thousands of orders were based on a piece of paper. At that time, the customers who came here to do business were relatively simple. Up to now, there is hardly such a good thing. I asked them why, and they said they learned it from the clever China.

In the years of dealing with and doing business with Africans. My conclusion is that he wants to buy something, and if you pay him a high price, he won't even look at what it is, so you must show him your lowest-cost thing first, then compare it with him, and then slowly guide him why this good thing is so expensive, and he will slowly accept it. If someone does well in Africa, this person will place an order at that booth. When others know about it, they will come to this booth and ask the guests if they have an order and what they ordered. Come on, give me exactly the same. Some people are puzzling because they have one more guest, and their financial resources have been rolling in ever since.

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