I'm at the 2012 African Studies Association Annual Meetings in Philadelphia, where I'm going to present a work-in-progress on Chine...

In 2007 and 2008, many of us read in the Western and Chinese media that a Chinese-Sudanese joint venture was going to build a railway to...

One of the most popular guest posts I've hosted here on the blog was Lila Buckley's " Eating Bitter to Taste Sweetness ...

Every few months, I have another meeting with a donor agency or an NGO that is interested in developing joint activities with China, in A...

Most of this blog is about the political and economic side of China in Africa. But in many ways, it's the cultural side that fascinat...

Here come the Chinese... Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak writing in the Daily Maverick , " Chinese shopkeeper cover story a new low...

In the mid-1980s, I traveled with a friend by bush plane, bush taxi, canoes, and by foot along the coast of Liberia from Monrovia to Abid...

An updated report from the Council on Foreign Relations on China-Africa Oil Ties makes several statements that made it past reviewers (a...

A Finnish student's master's thesis on bias in media coverage of Chinese aid and cooperation finds that media coverage (unsurprisin...

In an interview with Foreign Affairs , Alex de Waal summarizes the Chinese role in the recent agreement between the two Sudans on resumin...

A chapter I wrote while I was at IFPRI, "Chinese Engagement in African Agriculture: Fiction and Fact," has been published in th...

My invited commentary on the New York Times " Room for Debate " page today, September 20, 2012. Here was the debate: A Human R...

Business Day, a leader in the Nigerian press, has published details about a US$1.1 bn set of loan agreements signed recently with China ...

The Financial Times magazine "This is Africa" asked me to write an op-ed for their current issue. My short piece, " Dispe...

Chinese oil companies are moving into Canada ... amid a predictably polarized debate. An interesting and balanced view from the Vancouve...

The Dragon's Gift has now been published in a Chinese translation, by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences press. The cover is a lot l...

Ugandan Soldier.          Photo credit Peter Doerrie On Sunday, August 26, 2012 the Washington Post front-page stories included " ...

Chinese migration expert Yoon Jung Park was interviewed by Radio Australia on her fieldwork surveying attitudes toward Chinese immigrants ...

The proliferation of Chinese traders in African markets is one of the perinneal sore spots in China-Africa relations. This video highlight...

A Danish reader, Jan Jensen, wrote with a question about the status of the Chinese infrastructure package in the DRC. A lot was pledged in ...

I have been offline for much of the past 20 days, first on vacation in the Vancouver area, Olympic Peninsula and the San Juan islands, th...

On Thursday and Friday last week I attended the UN's Development Cooperation Forum , a biennial meeting held by the Economic and Soci...

A growing number of students are producing really first rate field research on China in Africa. I recently read the M.A. thesis of Arwen ...

Today I was informed that this blog, China in Africa: the Real Story, won a Danwei Model Worker Awards 2012. What's that, you might as...

I address this question in the latest issue of East Asia Forum , 4, 2 (April - June 2012). Published by Australia National University in ...

The Center for Global Development presents a Global Development Matters Movie Night with When China Met Africa Wedn...

On Friday last week while I was in Nairobi at a World Bank event on China and fragile states,  The Star (Nairobi) published an insightful...

China Africa Development Fund, the equity investment arm established by China Development Bank and launched at the 2006 Beijing Summit of ...