This morning, CNN published my op-ed, " What does China's shock yuan devaluation mean for Africa ?" China's developme...

We often assume that Chinese oil, gas and mining companies are "the worst of a bad bunch" (quoting from a Global Witness emai...

Photo: Ben Curtis, AP via The Detroit News This guest post is by Janet Eom, the Research Manager at the SAIS China Africa Research Ini...

This week, tens of thousands of people are gathering for the development finance summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the largest confere...

Will China provide $1 trillion in finance to Africa by 2025? No way.  I really wanted to avoid analyzing this silly story, even whe...

Photo:  C. Chappat / Biblioteca de la ONU en Ginebra Not long ago I received an email about a visit to Beijing being planned for Jua...

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 ) ...