Case Study: Chinese Recycling Firm Creates Jobs while Cleaning Up Lusaka

Isabel Tembo, a mother of 2, wakes up every morning and heads to a local dumpsite in Zambia’s capital - Lusaka to join several other jobless women who pick through piles of garbage to collect plastic bottles for sale. ...

A New Generation of Chinese Social Entrepreneurs Emerges in Africa

The story of the Chinese in Africa is one that has been largely defined by either state or corporate interests. Whereas there are hundreds, if not thousands, of Western non-governmental organizations and other civil society groups have long been active in Africa, there are a just a handful of similar ...