By Kenyan journalist Lenah Bosibori, first published on TalkAfrica. The Chinese government has completely closed down its domestic ivory market leading to the rise of African elephants in the wild. In Kenya the Chinese Government has provided state of the art… Continue Reading
By Moroccan journalist Hasnae Belmekki. Translated from French by Gerard Guedegbe. Chinese traders’ migratory movement to Derb Omar in Morocco is a recent phenomenon. Specialised in wholesale and semi-wholesale goods directly imported from China, who are these small entrepreneurs, where… Continue Reading
By Kenyan journalist Njeri Kimani, first published on Khuluma Africa. “The first night I got electricity in my house I kept on blowing the bulb for it to go off, just like I was used to blowing my tin lamp”, laughs… Continue Reading
By Nigerian journalist Eromo Egbejule, first published in the April 2018 issue of The Africa Report as part of a lead story on China relations in Nigeria. The second article, entitled Djibouti’s Booming Scene – Fueled By Foreign Militaries, was… Continue Reading
By Ugandan journalist Francis Mugerwa, first published on Daily Monitor. It is a sunny morning and a young man is seen squatting, holding a trowel in his right hand as he plasters cement on a drainage that is being constructed along the… Continue Reading
In a year marking 20 years of diplomatic ties between China and South Africa, UFRIEDA HO looks back on steps in the longer journey of Chinese South Africans at Wits University. Originally published in Wits Review Magazine, April 2018. The first… Continue Reading
By Botswana journalist Sharon Tshipa, first published at Weekend Post. Photo story first published at SOPA Images. To eradicate poverty, the President of Botswana, Ian Khama in his inaugural address in 2009 identified poverty eradication as one of his flagship… Continue Reading
By South African journalist Simon Allison, first published on Mail & Guardian. A rocky, steep-banked promenade outlines the port of Djibouti. Old men use it for their late-afternoon constitutionals and the odd beggar sleeps on its benches. The breeze is… Continue Reading
February 17 marks World Pangolin Day, a day to commemorate and bring awareness to the plight of the pangolin; the most trafficked animal in the world. The pangolin is being hunted and killed in vast numbers in Africa, where its scales… Continue Reading
By Zimbabwean journalist Sydney Kawadza, originally published in Business Weekly. Horrendous figures coming out of Zimbabwe indicate the loss of about 330 000 hectares of forests annually due to a variety of activities including agriculture, domestic use and veld fires,… Continue Reading