27 June 2010 - The area around Guangzhou's Deng Feng Hotel in Yuexiu district is known as "chocolate city". It is an area full with African and Arabic shops, bars and restaurants, and is frequently visited by the African community in town. These days all Africans in the mainland unite behind the football team of Ghana. Most African bars stay open until late as the matches only start at 2h30 am local time. The audience, from all corners of the African continent and speaking a mix of English, French and Chinese, are glued to the TV screens and don't mind the Chinese commentators, as football is football. "It's a bit like watching an Indian movie," says one spectators from Ghana, who is watching with her Ethiopian boyfriend. Fufu and beef curry are flushed down with cheap beer. All the cheering helped, because Ghana beat the USA by 2 - 1..
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