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April 1, 2021
From charges of neo-colonialism to debt and vaccine diplomacy, China-Africa experts face dual responsibilities. Not only do they need to tell the real story of China’s engagement in Africa, they also need to break down and challenge the cynicism surrounding the topic, in order to encourage better and more sustainable engagement.
Author and professor Deborah Bräutigam is one of these experts. In 2014, she created the China-Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies to gather credible sources of data that can be used to better understand China’s engagement in Africa.
When special drawing rights aren’t so special
Hannah Wanjie Ryder & Gyude Moore
March 02, 2021 22:43
While 47 African countries are eligible for Covax support, 25 still have not been able to secure any vaccine orders. (Reuters)
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With the arrival of US President Joe Biden’s administration, calls for a fresh allocation of special drawing rights (SDRs) the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) reserve assets have gained new momentum. Yet while such proposals are supposedly geared toward assisting developing countries hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, SDRs are allocated according to a country’s IMF quota and voting share, rather than its needs. As such, the vast majority of any new allocation would go to wealthy countries.
African Perspectives on China
Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi, Hannah Ryder, and Bob Wekesa discuss the many variations of African views on China, from pessimism to optimism and everything in between.
February 09, 2021
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China’s presence in Africa has been a source of heated debate around the world. In the U.S. in particular, media outlets and government officials alike have raised accusations of “neocolonialism” and “debt traps,” while China defends its “win-win cooperation” and “brotherhood” with African countries.
How do people in different African countries think about the relationship with China?
On February 3, The Diplomat hosted a discussion on that topic featuring Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, Nigeria; Hannah Ryder, the CEO of Development Reimagined, a pioneering international development consultancy in China; and Bob Wekesa, the research, partnership, a
Ever since former New York Times journalist Howard French’s must-read,
China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa was published in 2014, there’s been a lot of curiosity and increased awareness in the West about the rising presence of Chinese laborers across the continent.
For ordinary Africans it’s a daily reality and at times a source of local labor tensions in many countries with high unemployment rates as they see thousands of Chinese workers and managers leading dozens of government-commissioned infrastructure projects in their cities and beyond.
But while French’s “million” number might have been an informed estimate, the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI), a project at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has been keeping track of the official data going back to 2005. These official numbers will likely not include the hundreds of Chinese migrants who stay on in a country after the infrastruct