Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challenging ...

To what extent do Chinese training programs for African journalists provide alternatives to overcome (historically Western) colonial practices of knowledge production, or instead perpetuate those same ...

As 2026 marks the Year of China-Africa People-to-People Exchanges, friendship between the people forms the vital cornerstone ...

Secretary of State Tillerson is visiting Africa 13 months into his tenure. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is making a week-long, five-nation visit to Africa where he's expected to reaffirm the U.S.

The mood was electric, with a seamless fusion of Chinese and South African culture at Sandton when Consul-General of China in ...

This is a blog post by Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden... The Chinese presence in Africa has been so sudden and so all-encompassing that it's left a lot of people confused. I want to start by trying ...

For most of the past 25 years, Chinese construction companies operating in Africa could count on generous financial backing from Chinese banks. Between 2000 and 2019, Chinese funders committed almost ...

China's role in Africa is shifting from state-owned enterprise-led infrastructure to private consumer goods. Surge in Chinese exports and small entrepreneurs targeting Africa's growing consumer market ...

As China’s foreign policy toward the African continent developed into a(n even more) pragmatic approach in the early 1980s – in particular, following the 11-country tour of Premier Zhao Ziyang in ...

Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus. In May 2025, African countries imported ...

South Africa accounted for just under one-third of Chinese module exports to Africa in June 2025, according to Ember. Image: JUWI Renewable Energies. Africa imported over 15GW of solar panels from ...

Elisa Gambino’s work was undertaken under the European Research Council advanced grant for the project ‘African Governance and Space: Transport Corridors, Border Towns and Port Cities in Transition’ ...