South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma arrives in Beijing. Photograph by GovernmentZA.

In this edition of the podcast, we are joined by Deborah Brautigam, author of Will Africa feed China and The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa to talk about China-Africa relations and misconceptions of China’s role on the African continent.

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Notes

• Recommendations
  • Desne’s review of “The Book of Memory” by Petinah Gappah
    • The Book of Memory on Amazon
  • The Royal African Society’s “Whats_on Africa”
  • Graeme Wood: What ISIS really wants
  • Kongo: Power and Majesty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • Chris Blattman’s blog post on the exhebition
• China in Africa
  • 2005 BBC article on dynamite factory explosion in Zambia
  • Eckart Woertz: “Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East“
• Agenda
  • Africities 2015 Summit
  • 7th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
  • Deborah’s talk at Wits University: “Feeding Frenzy – Fictions & Facts about China, Africa & the Media” on November 17

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The music on this podcast was kindly provided by DJ Maramza.