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Lowell Lecture
Great Decisions | China's Role in Africa
Date & Time
Feb. 16, 2021 at 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location
Virtual
, MA
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Speaker(s)
Dr. Lina Benabdallah
Presenting Organization
Topics
Contact
Elise Pitcairn (events@worldboston.org, )
The Covid-19 crisis has put a massive strain on what was a growing positive economic and political relationship between China and the continent of Africa. As Chinese President Xi Jinping’s centerpiece “Belt and Road initiative” continues to expand Chinese power, the response to the spread of Covid-19, as well as the African government’s growing debt to China, has seen pushback. What are some of the growing economic and political issues between China and Africa?
Dr. Lina Benabdallah is an assistant professor at Wake Forest University and the author of Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Her research has appeared in the Journal of International Relations and Development, Third World Quarterly, African Studies Quarterly, and Project on Middle East Political Science, as well as in public-facing outlets such as The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage and Foreign Policy.