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A Left Perspective on China-Africa Relations

In the run-up to Forum on China-Africa Cooperation conference that will take place later this month in Dakar, CAP is speaking with a wide spectrum of activists, analysts, and other thought leaders about what they think should be on the agenda when Chinese and African ministers convene.

This week, Mikaela Nhondo Erskog, a researcher at the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research joins Eric & Cobus from Johannesburg to share a leftist, socialist perspective on Sino-Africa engagement and why China’s arrival in Africa in the early 2000s helped to break the continent’s historical dependence on U.S. and European powers.

Show Notes:

About Mikaela Nhondo Erskog:

Mikaela Nhondo Erskog is a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. She is also part of the Dongsheng collective and a coordinator of the No Cold War platform, a peace platform promoting multipolarity and maximum global cooperation.

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