Poacher. Confessions from the Abalone Underworld by Kimon de Greef and Shuhood Abader (Kwela, September 2018) is an unprecedented inside view of South Africa’s illicit abalone trade, a lawless underwater treasure hunt for a marine snail prized as a delicacy in… Continue Reading
By Ugandan journalist Frederic Musisi, first published in Daily Monitor on 5 September. If you had been given a decade to ponder, you would never have imagined that Kapeeka in Nakaseke District, about 63km from the capital Kampala, would emerge from shadows… Continue Reading
China House has undertaken wildlife conservation activities among Chinese communities in Africa for four years now. While our task has not been easy, we have learned some valuable lessons from our activities in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia.… Continue Reading
By Ugandan journalist Frederic Musisi, first published in Daily Monitor on 3 September. In downtown Ouagadougou central market in Burkina Faso Chinese nationals going about their business, either retailing China-made phones or electronic appliances, are a common sight. During a… Continue Reading
By South Sudan journalist Moses Gum, first published on China Daily Africa under the title “Aid buys time in S.Sudan as government pushes farming”. China’s humanitarian assistance is helping alleviate starvation in South Sudan as the government promotes farming to strengthen… Continue Reading
By Yu-Shan Wu, Research Associate at the Africa-China Reporting Project and doctoral candidate (International Relations) at the University of Pretoria; and Dr Cobus van Staden, Senior Researcher: China Africa at the South African Institute of International Affairs. First published on the Mail &… Continue Reading
By Yu-Shan Wu, Research Associate at the Africa-China Reporting Project. Originally published on Africa Portal. This year marks two decades of official diplomatic ties between China and South Africa. Links were forged in 1998 when a newly democratic South Africa under… Continue Reading
By Cameroon journalist Amindeh Blaise Atabong, first published on Journal du Cameroun.com. Cameroon is determined to become a middle-income country by 2035. To achieve this lofty vision, it has elaborated a Growth and Employment Strategy Paper (GESP) with the development… Continue Reading
By South African journalist Claire van den Heever, first published on African Arguments. Meet some of the growing group of Africans lining up to learn Chinese. Soon after being named Entrepreneur of the Year in Zimbabwe’s equivalent of “Dragon’s Den”,… Continue Reading
By Liberia journalist Fredrick P.W. Gaye, first published on Inprofiledaily. Prior to the civil war in 1990, agriculture was the main source of livelihood for the great majority of Liberians. Except on plantations operated by foreign concessionaires and wealthy Liberians,… Continue Reading