China's Rise and Soft Power in Africa

Writing for Kenya's Daily Nation on 6 July 2013, Peter Kagwanja, CEO of the Africa Policy Institute, discussed the role of China's soft power in Africa as it tries to lessen concerns over its fast global rise.  The article titled "China's 'Soft Power' Bolsters Africa's New Assertive Diplomacy" overstates Western concerns about China's rise as it applies to Africa, but makes, nevertheless, several good points.

China in Africa Discussion

Radio France 24 hosted on 26 March 2013 a frank and balanced discussion on China in Africa.  The participants were Solange Guo Chatelard, associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropoligy, CERI Sciences Po; Alexandre Kateb, managing director, Competence Finance Consulting in Paris; and Adama Gaye, author of China-Africa: the Dragon and the Ostrich.  Francois Picard hosted the discussion. 

The program can be accessed as two podcasts, the first of 18 minutes and the second of 19 minutes. The discussants covered a wide range of topics including loans, investments, trade, political conditionality, neocolonialism, security, Africans in China, BRICS, Taiwan, Zambia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania.