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South Korea – The Renewal of an Alternative?

The attraction of South Korea as an emerging donor and a new partner for African countries stems from its own development experience. African countries like Ghana and Kenya focus not only on China, but also on East Asian and South Korean investors for their infrastructure projects and foreign investments, trying to conduct their ‚Looking East‘-policies. Other countries like Ethiopia try to model their own country after the idea of the development-led state as seen in South Korea.

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Does China meet infrastructure building norms and priorities in Africa?

Article by Dr. Daouda Cisse, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
On the 24-25 May, GIGA organised in Hamburg an international workshop on the role of companies from emerging countries in global norm-building on sustainability.

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China Central Television in Africa

The conference “Imagining Globality: China’s Global Projects in Culture," held at the China Institute of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, dealt with a number of projects which China uses globally to engage with the world through culture.

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China's Economic Cooperation with Africa – Facts and Figures

The second session of the AFRASO-Lecture Series on 21st of March 2013 focused on the economic cooperation between China and Africa. Two speakers presented facts and figures regarding this specific relationship...

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China’s Colonies in Africa

Some observers refer to Africa’s intensified relations with China as colonialism or neocolonialism insinuating exploitation. In an article in the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau published in March 2013 titled “Afrikas zweite Kolonisierung” (“Africas second colonization”) the author Johannes Dieterich...

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