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Film could benefit China’s soft power. It highlights the country’s deep pockets and potential for wider audience appeal.
Relations between the US and Africa are unlikely to improve while Trump remains president. But that doesn’t mean the continent should remain passive.
The US secretary of state’s visit to five African countries didn’t have much to offer by way of investments and commerce.
China’s offensive ‘blackface’ skit intended to highlight the positive aspects of China-Africa relations, has done the opposite.
The US Secretary of State’s mission to Africa will produce few benefits for the continent or for US-Africa relations.
A narrow interest in whether Beijing actively pushed for Mugabe’s fall is based on the assumption that the China-Africa relationship is an isolated phenomenon.
The transformation of the EU-Africa summit series into the EU-AU summit is more than just a change of name. It reflects the increasing recognition of the AU as an international actor.
China’s presence in Africa continues to grow with its first military base in Djibouti. It wants to be a friend to Africa positioning itself as a global power while looking after its own interests.
The African Union is changing the way it does business. Its new reforms, led by Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, call for fewer strategic priorities and addressing bureaucratic bottlenecks.
The risk following recently ended economic booms in Africa is that, due to insufficient planning and excessive optimism, the windfalls were wasted. But there are signs that Africa may be changing.
In Ethiopia, the US pushes the diffusion of individual freedoms and China jockeys for collective economic betterment. Both the US and China could lose out if chaos spreads in the Horn of Africa.
The US and France have bolstered military strength across vast areas of Africa in response to Islamist threat. But the interest is also driven by Western strategic calculations
The time has come for developed nations to eliminate the large pockets of ignorance which exist in their societies about Africa and other peoples. Globalisation demands that people think differently.
Although ‘race’ as a biological category was discredited long ago, racial thinking or racialism is still common in China.
Between 1995 and 2013 the US provided about US$98 billion in aid to sub-Saharan Africa. But the country’s economic and political reach is slowly declining.
The increasing importance of non-traditional donors such as China has meant that the economic and political stronghold of Western countries in sub-Sahara Africa has gradually ebbed.
Agriculture featured prominently at the 2015 Forum on China-Africa Co-operation, but the reality has yet to catch up to the hype about China’s involvement in African agriculture.
When it comes to the global political economy, no one “talks left and walks right” more than China, a dominant player in global capitalism. South African and Chinese aspirations have much in common.
China has many climate issues, but the steps the country is taking to combat these issues is being recognised worldwide.
Top contributors
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
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Associate Professor, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
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Research fellow, University of Pretoria
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Professor of History, University of Dayton
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Director Research at ATAF, and PhD supervisor Kafayat Amusa, University of Pretoria
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SARB Chair of Monetary Policy Studies, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Economics, University of South Africa
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Research fellow, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University
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Head: Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Politics & International Political Sociology, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor, University of South Africa
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Lecturer in African and Transnational History, University of York
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
