Category: Investment
How Rwanda Attracts Chinese Money and Migrants Without the Lure of Natural Resources
It is a widely-held perception that Chinese investment in Africa is guided by a strategic foreign policy agenda focused on securing vast amount of natural resources. This narrative fits nicely with an outdated Western ...
The Honeymoon Between China and Africa Is Over and That's a Good Thing
It wasn't that long ago when it was all smiles between the Chinese and Africans. Remember? The headlines were all about "win-win" development, China's role in helping Africa to rise above its colonial past and investment, ...
Industrialization in Africa: Ethiopia Wants to Become the New 'Made in China'
There's a pretty good chance that some of the clothes you're wearing, the shoes on your feet and even the device you're using to read this were made in China. Even as its economy slows, China remains the world's factory, churning out billions of ...
China's Growing Appetite for African Real Estate
Amid a prolonged economic downturn and a weakening yuan, Chinese investors have steadily turned their focus to buying overseas assets. While there are a number of complicated reasons behind the massive capital outflows over the past 18 months, the fact remains that both individual ...
Is Africa Screwed for Being Too Financially Dependent on China?
Chinese government officials have been on all-out PR offensive across Africa lately to reassure increasingly nervous political and business leaders that even though China's economy may be slowing it will not affect the PRC's investment plans in Africa. Africans, for ...
How China's Economic Slowdown Will Impact Africa
The tremors in China's faltering economy are being felt across Africa. Now that China has replaced Europe and the United States as most African countries' largest trading partner, there is understandable concern that slowing demand in the PRC will be felt in Africa's commodity ...
Chinese Investment in Africa: Surprisingly Small, but Growing Fast
It's a widespread misconception that just because China is Africa's top trading partner, it's also the continent's largest foreign investor. In fact, China's ranks seventh overall in FDI, far behind the United States that has long been Africa's largest source of ...
China's Special Economic Zones in Africa: Lots of Hype, Little Hope
A decade ago China announced it would develop a series of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Africa to boost trade and industrialization. Given the phenomenal success of China's SEZs that helped to spark the PRC's three-decades of history-making economic growth, not ...
From 'Made in China' to 'Made in Africa'
A growing number of Chinese companies are looking to outsource production overseas in a bid to lower costs and meet Beijing's increasingly stringent environmental laws. Ethiopia and South Africa are among the beneficiaries of this new trend as Chinese apparel, textile and even steel ...
China & The Battle for Africa
Al Jazeera stands alone among the major international news channels in its regular coverage of the Chinese in Africa. In the network's latest documentary released in September 2014, veteran Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura hosts "