The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa was just chosen as one of Zocalo Public Square's Top 10 Books of 2010 : Brau...

I've been getting calls these days from journalists who want to discuss " China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation ," the n...

book cover: Harper Collins My nighttime recreational reading these days is Richard McGregor's The Party: The Secret World of China...

Moises Naim (photo: le livre noir de l'economie ) This week in an Indian opinion piece on India-China rivalry , I read yet another re...

The Wikileaked documents have spawned a number of stories on China and Africa. Here's one from Japan Times that offers up some interes...

The ever-interesting economist Professor Chris Blattman comments on " China: Not Playing By the Rules? " in his blog, chrisblattma...

Chinese road construction in DRC. photo Kilogold.net While searching for an update on China's multi-billion infrastructure contract i...

Khartoum Refinery. photo credit: KRCSD.com We've read recently about Chinese offers and deals to build refineries in African countrie...

Ghana and China presidents toast deal: WSJ photo credit We've heard a lot recently about the new multi-billion deals signed between...

Today a student asked me if I had any information on African public opinion about Chinese immigrants. Recently, a number of news articles ha...

photo credit: Evan Osnos, The New Yorker .. One of the primary complaints I hear on China-in-Africa is the issue of substandard Chinese...

Photo: Intl. Center for Tropical Agriculture .. Now that five years have gone by, the success of Malawi in increasing food production t...

 Coal mining: Image courtesy of Reuters .. Many people (including me) who study China-in-Africa were not well-versed in the standard ope...

At the Millennium Development Goals summit in New York about ten days ago, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced the latest figures on China...

In recent years, I've been pleased to see a lot of African students attending conferences and workshops on China-Africa topics in Beijin...

Ghana-China flags. Ghanaweb.com .. On September 22, 2010, as I was flying back to Washington from Beijing, the government of Ghana annou...

Africa Pavilion: courtesy The Atlantic.c.. ... I've been in China (Shanghai and Beijing) for the past eight days. Lots of interesting...

More mistaken reports of Chinese investment. photo: farmlandgrab.org Two days ago, on September 7, 2010, the World Bank released its lo...

Commercial investment in agriculture in low income countries is a hot button issue, for many good reasons. Often linked to corruption, frequ...

One of CSFAC's investments in Africa. (photo James Keeley) .. Are Chinese companies pushing aside their party comrades when it comes...

Train in Lagos, Nigeria (photo: Accelerator, Nigeria) ... For several years, stories about China Civil Engineering and Construction Corp...

Stirring up trouble Claims that China sends convicts to labour in Africa are unfounded Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong Au...

Chinese workers in Angola (BBC). In 2008, Chinese companies reported a turnover of around $20 billion from construction contracts in Afri...

Yesterday I received an email from a UNDP colleague asking me what I thought about recent media stories of "Chinese convict labor"...