Welcome to this “Looking East” edition of Africa in Fact on Africa-Asia relations. Last year, members of the GGA team paid a visit to Asia, and more specifically, to the Far East. While transiting Hong Kong, I was...
Looking East
Asia’s AGOA fronting
Chinese and Taiwanese textile and apparel factory owners have exploited an AGOA loophole, creating jobs in Lesotho, but still funnel most profits back home Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants have brought jobs to...
Ghost cities: Africa’s moving in
While new metropoles sprouting across China remain empty, those they’ve built in Angola are housing the African nation’s growing middle class China’s construction boom has seen spanking new “ghost cities” sprout up...
Rejuvenating Asian-African Solidarity in the 21st Century
The Cold War and colonialism promoted Africa-Asia solidarity in the 1950s, but a new world order has fragmented both continents, with nations preferring individual bilateral relations “Yes, there has indeed been a...
Looking back, to the future
As far as Sino-African researchers are concerned, Africa’s relationship with China is ancient history In 2002 South Africa’s Parliament unveiled a digital reproduction of a map – of China, the Middle East and Africa –...
Cities that serve people by seeking profit
Asia’s thriving metropolises could provide the blueprints for Africa’s rapidly growing cities, and help the continent avoid the many pitfalls of urbanisation Africa and Asia are both latecomers to urbanisation. While...
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