It’s up to the Africans too. Opportunities for Sino-African Cooperation

Hungarian Journal of African Studies interview with Chris Alden

Abstract

We spoke to Dr. Chris Alden, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, about the growing Chinese presence in Africa. An internationally renowned scholar on this topic, Dr. Alden is the director of the “China in Africa” project at the Institute of International Affairs in South Africa. Over the past decade, he has written several books and published articles on Asian-African relations, and between 1990 and 2000, he was a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) in Johannesburg, where he conducted extensive research on the African continent.