Fudan University PhD candidate Cliff Mboya shared his surprise on Twitter that China’s ambassador to Kenya, Wu Peng, agreed to a sit-down interview with Dickens Onditi Olewe, a correspondent from the BBC’s Africa Desk. He interviewed the ambassador last Friday and the embassy was seemingly pleased with how it went.
Ambassador Wu and his counterpart in Pretoria, Ambassador Lin Songtian are representative of a new, more outgoing generation of Chinese diplomats in Africa who are more media-friendly and less wary of unscripted interactions with journalists.
