The Africa Policy Research Institute, an independent think tank based in Berlin, published on 12 June 2024 a policy brief titled "Exploring the Role of Narratives in China-Africa Relations."
The report questions the importance of tracking and interrogating the role of development narratives in the context of global power shifts by focusing on China-Africa relations. It contains the following narratives:
--Going beyond binary narratives of China-Africa relations by Lina Benabdallah.
--Debt traps and other stories: The Western counter-narration of Africa-China relations by Cobus van Staden.
--Borrowing for belts and roads: The double edge of China's infrastructure lending in Africa by Yunnan Chen.
--What the Indo-Pacific narrative tells us about China and Africa by Yu-Shan Wu.
