Articles on China's Presence in Africa

 Good Governance Africa published in June 2023 an edition with a series of articles on China's presence in Africa titled "Sovereignty in an Emerging Multipolar World."

The articles are:

--Chinese Media in South Africa: An Overview by Barry Van Wyk.

--Resuscitating Indigenous Languages through Translanguaging Pedagogy within the Evolution and Dynamics of Teaching Mandarin in Nigeria and South Africa by Philip Ademola Olayoku.

--Chinese Companies' Corporate Social Responsibility in the Eyes of Local Communities in Kenya: A Public diplomacy Approach by Cliff Mboya.

--Chinese Vloggers' Representations of Sub-Saharan Africa on Douyin: An Exploratory Study by Isak Wang and Ann Wang.

--The China Factor in Africa's Pursuit of Digital Sovereignty by Mandira Bagwandeen.

Combatting Russian Disinformation in Africa

 The Foreign Policy Research Institute published on 29 August 2023 a commentary titled "Russian Disinformation in Africa: No Door on this Barn" by Dan Whitman.

Russia has a long history of effective disinformation in Africa while Western governments search in vain for a way to counter the lies.  The author suggests it is time to support financially certain NGOs and independent citizen organizations that target Russian disinformation.  

Russian Soft Power in Africa

 The South African Institute of International Affairs published in February 2022 a study titled "Russian and African Media: Exercising Soft Power" by Cayley Clifford and Steven Gruzd.

Russia's state-owned media outlets are central to the Kremlin's strategy and are drivers of its soft power in Africa.  Services like Sputnik and RT find resonance among African editors, although they operate on a limited budget.

Kleptocracy behind Sudan's Military Coup

 The Sentry published in November 2021 a paper titled "A Strategy for Revitalizing Sudan's Democratic Transition" by Suliman Baldo and J.R. Mailey.  

The military coup in Sudan brings the security services' warped incentive structures into public view.  Confronting this problem head-on is essential for addressing Sudan's political crisis and revitalizing the transition to civilian rule.  Sudan's security services are hijacking the state and preserving the kleptocratic system with their commercial holdings such as the Defense Industrial System.  

Forum on China-Africa Cooperation at 21 Years

 LSE Ideas published in October 2021 a collection of essays titled "FOCAC at 21: Future Trajectories of China-Africa Relations" by the China Foresight Project.

The next FOCAC Summit is scheduled to take place in late November in Senegal.  The goal of this report is to highlight emerging trends that have the potential to shape China-Africa relations in the near to medium-term future.

It includes the following essays:

--Introduction: FOCAC in a Time of COVID-19 by Chris Alden.

--Can China Pull Back? A Balance-of-Payments Assessment of the Decline in China's Overseas Investment by Stephen Paduano.

--Africa's Priorities at FOCAC: Economic Recovery and Resilience by Mzukisi Qobo.

--Seeking Stability: China's Security Engagement in Africa by Lukas Fiala.

--Going beyond the Stereotypes: China's Digital Infrastructure in Africa by Iginio Gagliardone.

--Education and Knowledge Production by Yu-Shan Wu.

--Expanding Horizons: China-Africa Cooperation on Space Technology by Gidon Gautel.

--China-Africa Public Health Cooperation and Vaccine Diplomacy by Lina Benabdallah.

China's Vaccine Diplomacy in Africa

 The South African Institute of International Affairs published in June 2021 a paper titled "Vaccine Diplomacy and Beyond: New Trends in Chinese Image-Building in Africa" by Cobus van Staden and Yu Shan Wu.

Drawing on the COVID-19 pandemic, the paper maps and contextualizes new developments in China's use of public diplomacy in Africa.

An Analysis of Russia's Re-engagement in Africa

The South African Institute of International Affairs published in October 2019 a study titled "Inside the Russia-Africa Matryoshka: Summitry, Geopolitics and Resources" by Elizabeth Sidiropolous and Chris Alden.

The paper analyses Russia's re-engagement with Africa in the context of the evolution of Russian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War, arguing that its turn to Africa is part of a multi-vector approach that was first articulated 20 years ago.

China-Africa Articles in The China Monitor

The Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University published issue 4 of The China Monitor in December 2016. It contains the following articles on China-Africa relations:

--Power and Justice in International Investment Law: China's Rise and Its Extra-territorial Human Rights Obligations vis-à-vis the African Host State Population by Anna Hankings-Evans.

--'With Those Views, You Should Work for the Communist Party of China': Challenging Western Knowledge Production on China-Africa Relations by Liam Michael O'Brien.

--China's Public Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: Perceptions, Opportunities and Challenges by Simon Matingwina.

China Tries to Improve Communication with Africa

The South African Institute of International Affairs published on 30 November 2105 a commentary titled "Leveraging China-Africa Relations Starts with Communication" by Yu-Shan Wu, PhD candidate at the University of Pretoria.

The author looks at China's increasingly active public diplomacy program in Africa and explains that China understands it must portray itself as a responsible, rising power. 

China's Challenge to Western Media in Africa

The Global Media Journal published in its Autumn/Winter 2014 edition a study titled "Media Development with Chinese Characteristics" by Iginio Gagliardone, University of Oxford. 

Building on fieldwork in Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya, the article explains to which extent China's entrance in the media and telecommunications sector actually challenges the dominant, Western-driven approaches to media development, promoting a state centered vision of the information society. 

Role of China in African Media

The Oxford University China Africa Network hosted on 9 November 2012 a conference on "New Trends in African Media: The Growing Role of China."

Iginio Gagliardone and Harry Verhoeven prepared a brief conference report that pointed out speakers and audience members underscored China's intentions to cast Africa and Africans in a more positive light. Other participants questioned the motives behind the spectacular expansion of CCTV and Xinhua News Agency, suggesting the effort may constitute a propaganda offensive.

Yushan Wu of the South African Institute of International Affairs gave a power point presentation titled China's State Media Engagement in Africa: An Instrument of Public Diplomacy.