The coming decade will see a consolidation of China’s position as the dominant external actor in Africa, but the implications for the continent’s future are still an open question, says Gyude Moore
A major narrative over the first two decades of the 21st century has been the rise of China and its emergence as an influential actor in Africa.…
The lack of transparency in a deal reached between Zambia’s debt-laden government and the China Development Bank (CDB) is making Zambia’s debt crisis worse, says the head of a China-Africa think-tank.…
South Africa and China are working on a renewal of their ten-year strategic partnership in a bid to boost a commercial relationship that has been hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic.…
The possibility of a new debt crisis in Africa triggered by the coronavirus presents new challenges for China’s role as primary lender to the continent.…
The Asian Aspiration examines what Africa can learn from the explosive economic growth of Asian countries over the last half century.…
China has lent over $150bn to African countries in nearly two decades, but as concerns mount over repayment, the nature of the China-Africa relationship is set to change for good, writes David Thomas
As the Chinese authorities scrambled to respond to Beijing’s first coronavirus outbreak in 50 days in mid-June, locking down residential compounds and sealing off a seafood market after at least 200 fell ill, an unruffled President Xi Jinping broadcast to African leaders to express solidarity in their own fight against the virus. …
Listen to African Business Podcast 13: China-Africa relations with Jinny Yan, Chief China Economist, ICBC Standard Bank
Following the annual Two Sessions meetings of China’s top leaders at the end of May and the extraordinary China-AU Summit on 17 June, host Desné Masie invites our special guest Jinny Yan, chief China economist at ICBC Standard Bank, to discuss the effect of Covid-19 on China’s economic and political relationship with Africa as well as the global economic outlook.
Covid-19 has brought Africa’s debt problems into sharp focus.…
The reputation of Turkish building contractors for quality and meeting deadlines is increasing on the continent, and with good reason, as NJ Ayuk explains
China has been Africa’s biggest builder the past two decades, creating $470bn worth of roads, rail lines, ports, airports, oil, gas and power facilities, pipelines, office buildings and other projects in 2018 alone.…
Julia Lovell’s study of Maoism has relevance not only for history buffs, but also for those interested in understanding Chinese policy in the current age of US-China superpower tension.…
