Video Worth Watching – China in Africa: Fair Trade or New Colonialism?

China-Africa experts Miriam Driessen (left) and Illaria Carozza (center) and David Pilling (right).

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Amsterdam arts and culture house deBAILE held a fascinating event on Monday with three prominent European China-Africa experts. The panel, from left to right, featured Miriam Driessen from Oxford University, Ilaria Carrozza from the Peace Research Institute Oslo and David Pilling, the Financial Times’ Africa Editor.

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