African Perceptions of the China Development Model

Megatrends Afrika published in October 2023 a paper titled "What Explains African Perceptions of China as a Model of Development?" by Oscar M. Otele, University of Nairobi. 

Using Afrobarometer survey data, this paper utilizes multivariate logit models to account for the differences in perceptions among countries.  The paper establishes that education, gender, the rural-urban divide, and respondent's perceptions of the influence of China's economic activities on the country's economy accounted for the differences.

Sudan's Revolution: Urban/Rural and Wheat/Sorghum Divide

The Rift Valley Institute published in February 2020 a study titled "Sudan's Grain Divide: A Revolution of Bread and Sorghum" by Edward Thomas and Magdi el Gizouli.

Street protests played an important part in bringing Omar al-Bashir's thirty-year rule to an end. This study argues that it was urban wheat-based bread-eaters, both the better off and poorer beneficiaries of National Congress Party rule, who took to the streets. Their grievances were also shared by the wider urban-based elite, but were distant from those of the rural peripheries, who mostly eat sorghum, and had arguably suffered and resisted the Bashir regime for much longer.