Africa’s largest e-commerce platform has discovered an unexpected weapon in its battle against Chinese shopping giants: embracing the very merchants that power its competitors while capitalizing on ...

The Chinese government between 1999 and 2000, set up a strategy aimed at growing the country’s economic might with a new wave of Chinese engagement in Africa known as the "Going Out Policy". This ...

China's role in Africa is shifting from state-owned enterprise-led infrastructure to private consumer goods. Surge in Chinese exports and small entrepreneurs targeting Africa's growing consumer market ...

Despite much talk of a slowdown, there is reason to believe that Chinese loans to African countries will increase in 2024. Throughout both the COVID-19 pandemic and much of 2023, there was been an ...

A Chinese-South African couple gained online attention by explaining traditional Chinese marriage customs The Chinese man married to a South African woman contrasted this tradition with the South ...

This is a blog post by Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden... The Chinese presence in Africa has been so sudden and so all-encompassing that it's left a lot of people confused. I want to start by trying ...

The Nairobi-Malaba Standard Gauge Railway across Nairobi National Park in Kenya, constructed by China Road and Bridge Corporation. Photo by Li Yahui/Xinhua via Getty Images For most of the past 25 ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...