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New U.S. Proposal to Limit Student Visas All But Hands the Educational Diplomacy Advantage in Africa to China
The United States government is proposing to severely restrict access to student visas from a majority of African countries in an effort to crack down on visa overstays. The new proposal by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calls for any ...
China Now the Top Destination for African Students, Says New Report
China is surging ahead of France, the United States and the United Kingdom to become the top destination for African students seeking to study abroad, according to new data from the Beijing-based consultancy Development Reimagined (DR). While Europe as ...
Book Review: “What Is China up To in Africa? Read This Book.”
Laura Seay, a well-known professor of African politics at Colby College in the United States, gave a glowing review in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage column this week to the new book by Wake Forest University assistant professor Lina Benabdallah.
Interested in Taking a Graduate-level Class in China-Africa Relations Taught by One of the Leading Scholars in the Field? Here’s What the Course Would Look Like.
David Shinn, a former U.S. ambassador and current adjunct professor at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. published the syllabus for his fall semester graduate-level course on China-Africa relations that will, not surprisingly, take place online due to COVID-19. ...
New Book Explains Why You Shouldn’t Focus Only on Hard Metrics to Evaluate China’s Engagement in Africa
A highly-anticipated new book by acclaimed China-Africa scholar Lina Benabdallah went on sale today. "Shaping the Future of Power" details a key difference that distinguishes China's engagement strategy in Africa from that of other countries: its extensive professional and skills-transfer initiatives. ...
Washington’s Outspoken Ambassador to Kenya Doesn’t Think Too Highly of Chinese Universities
Never one to mince words, the normally outspoken U.S. ambassador to Kenya, Kyle McCarter, got into a squabble over the weekend with a pair of Kenyans who were enquiring about the status of student visas to the United States that are now in question following President Trump's ...
Nigeria’s Future Railway Engineers Are Being Trained in China
While China's new railways in Africa are generating a lot of excitement there's also an equal amount of concern over who will maintain this new infrastructure once Chinese contractors handover the project to local stakeholders. In Nigeria, it's going to be ...
One of the First Classes of Nigerian Railway Engineers Graduates From University in China
One of the first classes of Nigerian railway engineers graduated this weekend from China's Central South University (中南大学）in Hunan and will soon return to help manage the new Chinese-built railways back home. ...
A University in Hong Kong Now Accepting Applications for One of the World’s First China-Africa Master’s Degree Programs
Pursuing a master's degree in China-Africa relations is still quite difficult to do in many countries given the lack of dedicated programs or specialized teaching staff. But that may be starting to change. Hong Kong's Lingnan University announced on Friday that ...
While Kenyan Parents Worry About Their Kids’ Schooling During Lockdown, the Country’s Education Head Thinks This is a Good Time Talk About Everyone Learning Chinese
The topic of Mandarin language instruction is extremely sensitive in Kenya even during good times, so you can imagine the reaction that Education Chief Secretary George Magoha received this weekend when he hinted that Chinese language education would be included in the country's national curriculum known as ...
It’s True That a Lot of People Around the World Don’t Like China Very Much Right Now. I Know How to Change That.
As a Chinese person who's traveled around the world, including many parts of Africa, I can clearly see just how provincial most of my fellow Chinese are about the outside world. And, regrettably, that is partially to blame for many of the current difficulties we're facing.
Tweet of the Day: China’s Confucius Institutes in Africa Expand Beyond Cultural Education
Folashadé Soulé is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford and a leading scholar in China-Africa negotiations with a particular emphasis on Chinese engagement in ...