Journalist James Wan writes about the venerable Chinese community in Mauritius in his latest article for New African magazine: " Mee...

I've not been blogging much as I finished my new book, Will Africa Feed China ? Last week I sent off the final edits. The manuscript ...

J. R. Mailey at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies has just published his new paper on the China International Fund, a.k.a. " The...

Image Credit:  Flickr/ GovernmentZA  via The Diplomat I was struck by an article today in The Diplomat on Chinese foreign minister Wan...

Our sister website, the SAIS China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, has now published the latest (and last) in a...

The China Africa Development Fund (CAD-Fund) launched by China Development Bank (CDB) in 2007 remains poorly understood. For example, a 2...

Thika Road, Nairobi      credit: theeastafrican.co.ke Sitting in yet another airport, after yet another delayed flight, after yet an...

Chinese New Year in Johannesburg. Image  © Cornell Tukiri 

What I'm reading: a new paper by Sérgio Chichava, Lara Côrtes and Aslak Orre on the coverage of China in the Mozambican media , an...

The Huajian factory outside Addis Ababa [ The Economist ] What I'm reading:  A new paper by Daniel Poon at UNCTAD: China's De...

Our new center, the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)...

Photo credit: Solange Guo Chatelard Our sister website, the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University ( SAIS-CARI ) ...