In West Africa, Chinese Motorcycles Find a Market

In West Africa, Chinese Motorcycles Find a Market

BAMAKO, Mali -- Lambert Coulibaly, 40, seems an unlikely proponent of the global marketplace.

Employed as a maintenance worker by a hotel in the River Quarter of Mali's capital, he spends not a little of his day sitting around and smoking.

Yet Coulibaly commutes to his job each day on a Chinese-made Yamaha motorcycle.

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