For decades, Africa has been a land of opportunity for Chinese workers seeking large infrastructure projects. However, in recent years, the coronavirus pandemic and a variety of other factors, including oil prices and the downscaling of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s global Belt and Road Initiative, have caused many Chinese workers to leave the continent in search of a better life. The number of Chinese workers across Africa has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade.Citing data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the number of Chinese workers in Africa have plummeted from 263,…