A Flurry of China-Africa Webinars at Institutions Across the U.S.

Interest in China-Africa relations among scholars and institutions in the U.S. appears to be on the rise in 2022, at least as measured by the number of webinars on the topic over the past couple of weeks:

• THE HOOVER INSTITUTION AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY: The conservative policy institute hosted a discussion on “China’s Sharp Power in Africa” that featured paper presentations by Roukaya Kasenally, a democracy scholar and Associate Professor at the University of Mauritius, and Rueben Lifuka, head of a Zambia-based environmental and governance consulting firm.
  
  Generally speaking, the discussion was quite pessimistic about China’s impact on African governance — which shouldn’t come as a big surprise, considering that Hoover is typically quite hawkish towards China. (WATCH HERE)

• U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE: The Congressionally-financed Washington, D.C. policy institute convened a discussion among a group of African scholars about the peace and security dimensions that emerged from last year’s FOCAC conference in Senegal. Abdul Hakeem Ajijola, chair of the African Union Cyber Security Expert Group, and Professor Garth le Pere from the University of Pretoria were the main guests.
  
  This discussion was refreshing, as it assigned equal importance to digital/cyber security issues and traditional security priorities. The final comments by Joseph Sany, vice president of USIP’s Africa Center at 1:02:20 is especially worthwhile. (WATCH HERE)

• CODE PINK: The left-leaning women-led NGO organized an online seminar to discuss Sino-African ties as part of the organization’s campaign to protest against the December 16, 2020 segment the Daily Show with Trevor Noah that featured numerous factual inaccuracies. Mikaela Nhondo Erskog from the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and Kambale Musavuli, an analyst at the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa, were the two main presenters.
  
  In contrast to the discussions at establishment institutions in the U.S. where views of China tend to be quite negative, the Code Pink webinar scrutinized U.S., not Chinese motives in Africa. (WATCH HERE)

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