It has been nearly three years since the Anglophone crisis began in Cameroon. The conflict has been vicious and it’s time for world leaders to act not just talk.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on China-Africa relations
Displaying 41 - 60 of 68 articles
The UK’s plans for post-Brexit trade and investment in Africa are pint-sized by the standards of other major players.
The British prime minister’s visit to Africa comes amid increased interest by China and France.
The Belt and Road Initiative will not be starting entirely from scratch. China has already invested heavily in several African railways.
Chinese investment in the US has never been high, but the ongoing trade war could dampen it further, with significant long-term repercussions.
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.
Top contributors
-
Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
-
Associate Professor, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
-
Honorary Research Associate, University of Cape Town
-
DST-NRF SARChI Chair in Innovation Studies, Tshwane University of Technology
-
Affiliate Lecturer, King's College London
-
Research fellow, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University
-
SARB Chair of Monetary Policy Studies, University of Pretoria
-
Research fellow, University of Pretoria
-
Lecturer in Economics, University of South Africa
-
Director Research at ATAF, and PhD supervisor Kafayat Amusa, University of Pretoria
-
Tshwane University of Technology
-
Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
-
Associate Professor (International Relations), University of Johannesburg
-
Professor of History, University of Dayton
