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Cruising on the Nile in Shekou
 

Ranajit Dam
Out of Africa: For those Shenzheners who believe that the city's social scene revolves around, and is effectively limited to, bikini parties and monster shots, The Buzz might have evidence to suggest you might be mistaken. On Friday night the action was at the Maillen Club in Shekou, where the Egypt-China Business Council (South China) and the Rwanda Investment & Export Promotion Agency China Office (RIEPA) jointly hosted an event titled: "Cruising Through the Nile: From Egypt to Rwanda," to promote the two countries . The evening featured African food and African dances. The dances were performed by Sheila and Sonia, two Rwandans living in Beijing who seemed quite impressed by our fair city. "The people here are so much nicer," Sheila declared. Playing the perfect hosts were Paul Kaboyoke, principal representative of RIEPA, and his bride-to-be Nicole (we hear the wedding will take place in Kigali in December) and Adel El Sayed of the Egypt business council and his wife Xie Peijun, whose daughter Coco did a wonderful job in MC-ing the entire show. Handling the larger-than-anticipated crowd was the exquisitely ravishing Crystal Zhang of RIEPA, who has surely inspired several hefty volumes of poetry. The Buzz talked carpets with the Urumqi-born George Tang, tea-smoked duck with Wang Qiang of the Sichuan government, and religion with trader Islam Ashmawy. "Religions may be different at the start,"Islam said. "But they all take you to the same place." Those who need their weekly bikini parties are welcome to it. Then the rest of us are beginning to realize that Shenzhen's social scene is finally growing up.
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