After several years of declining funding, the African end of the Belt and Road Initiative seems to be roaring back. The newest Griffith University/Green Development Finance Center data on the Belt and Road Initiative shows that engagement with Africa jumped by 395%, while a few big projects boosted engagement in Nigeria alone more than twelvefold.
These shifts indicate a window of opportunity for African electrification. 60% of Africans still ...
Author: Huang Hongxiang
Hongxiang Huang is a Chinese national and a Columbia University alumni. Since 2011, working with international organizations, he has been reporting and researching Chinese overseas business and social, environmental conflicts in Latin Americas, Africa and so on. Since 2014, he started China House (www.globalchinahouse.com) hoping to integrate China into global sustainable development through global citizenship education and youth engagement. He was featured in a Oscar-shortlisted film the Ivory Game as an undercovered ivory trade investigator and praised by Dr. Jane Goodall as "hero", after which they were featured together in one of the most influential TV programs in China called the Reader. Huang was also nominated by Forbes China as “30 Under 30” in the category of social entrepraunaur. Now his dream is to build “a Chinese non-governmental version of Peace Corps” and “a school of global citizenship in China”.
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