The China Africa Research Initiative published in November 2020 a study titled "Comparing the effects of Chinese and Traditional Official Finance on State Repression and Public Demonstrations in Africa" by Afa'anwi Ma'abo Che.
Drawing on case studies in Cameroon and Uganda, the author concludes that the evidence supports a negative correlation between Chinese official finance and public demonstrations, on the one hand, and a positive correlation between traditional official finance and public demonstrations, on the other.
