Upcoming Event: New Perspectives on China and Africa

 Ohio State's East Asian Studies Center and Center for African Studies, in conjunction with Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service Africa-China Initiative and George Washington University's East Asia National Resource Center are hosting on 15 November 2024 an event titled "New Perspectives on China and Africa" from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time.  Participants may attend in person or via Zoom.  

Speakers are:

--China-Africa Security Engagement Since COVID-19 by David Shinn

--Built Higher, Dug Deeper: The Effect on Chinese Debt Financing on African Infrastructure Coverage by Jyhong Hwang

--The Evolution of Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Implications for Technology, African Languages and Cultures in Africa and the Diaspora by Phiwokuhle Mnyandu

--China in Africa, Environmental Governance and Civil Society: The Case of the Kua Forest in Burkina Faso by Asma Amina Belem

--China's Relational Power in Africa: Beijing's "New Type of Party-to-Party Relations" by Joshua Eisenman

Transcript from my talk at Center for African Studies, Ohio State University

About 100 people from the Somali diaspora in Columbus and students from Ohio State University attended the event, which included a lively question and answer session. The other speaker was Abukar Arman, the Somali special envoy to the United States, representing the Somali Transitional Federal Government.

United States-Somali Relations: Local, National and International Dimensions