African Workers Report Cases of Assault, Discrimination by Their Chinese Supervisors

African Workers Report Cases of Assault, Discrimination by Their Chinese Supervisors
A Kenyan worker puts gravel at the construction site of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) near Nairobi, Kenya, on June 23, 2018. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Dominic Kirui
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SUSWA, Kenya—A Kenyan who worked on the Chinese-built Nairobi-Naivasha Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) says he and his colleagues underwent a great deal of harassment and assault by their Chinese managers while working on the project.

Samuel Wainaina, a 34-year-old father of two, recalls with a sarcastic smile the incidents that made him want to quit his job, citing cases of his colleagues and him being assaulted because of mistakes at the job site.