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Lina Benabdallah is a leading China-Africa scholar and an Assistant Professor of Politics at Wake Forest University in Salem, North Carolina. Professor Benabdallah regularly comments on Chinese engagement in both francophone and arabophone regions of Africa. You can follow her on Twitter at @lbendabdallah.

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