Although China was one of the first countries to establish ties with independent Uganda in 1962, statistics from the Chinese embassy in Kampala show that the volume of trade between the two countries never exceeded $10 million before the 1990s.… Continue Reading
In part two of a six part series for the Ugandan Observer, grant-recipient Benon Herbert Oluka travels to Kenya, where students have already embraced Mandarin Chinese. After completing her bachelor’s degree in international relations at the United States International University… Continue Reading
Several countries around Africa are reacting to China’s growing influence in different ways, including by introducing the teaching of the Chinese language. In part I of this six-part series published in The Observer , Benon Herbert Oluka examines China’s increasingly… Continue Reading