CGSP Podcasts

The recent kidnapping of three Chinese miners in the southwestern Nigerian state of Osun highlights the vulnerability that confronts the Chinese in many parts of Africa. Chinese companies are well-known for being willing to work in highly volatile regions, even amid civil wars ...

Chinese ambassadors in Africa rarely grant one-on-one interviews with international journalists. But that’s starting to change now, particularly as a few Chinese envoys are making themselves more accessible to the press and on social media platforms like Twitter. Two ambassadors are especially noteworthy in this ...

News coverage and social media commentary about the recent deal signed between the Ghanaian government and the Chinese state-owned construction conglomerate Sinohydro is almost universally negative. According to deal, Ghana would exchange 5% of its bauxite reserves for $2 billion of infrastructure. But critics in ...

It’s counterintuitive to a lot of people, but Chinese and African agriculture has a lot more in common with one another than many first expect. For the most part, both are dominated by small family farms that have to battle mightily with the twin effects ...

Chinese investors have been wary of the African market. For a long time, China’s cash-rich venture capital, private equity, and corporate investors have preferred the stability in the U.S. or the cultural familiarity in Southeast Asia’s markets. Africa, in their view, just didn’t have the ...

Ghana is moving forward with an environmentally-risky resources-for-infrastructure deal with the Chinese state-owned construction conglomerate Sinohydro. According to the agreement, Ghana will provide 5% of its bauxite reserves to Sinohydro in exchange for a $2 billion package of infrastructure that includes roads, bridges, power plants ...

NOTE: this interview with Alex Meyers was recorded just prior to his departure from the Donkey Sanctuary. Persistent Chinese demand for donkey hides is now pushing the animal’s population in many countries, including a number in Africa, to the brink of collapse according to a ...

African countries are not traditionally known for having strong space programs but now as the cost of launching satellites into orbit falls, that’s starting to change and Africa is becoming one of the fastest-growing space markets in the world. In contrast to programs in the ...