China’s vanishing factory jobs: Africa’s chance, if it can catch them
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The headline reads like a windfall: as Chinese wages climb, tens of millions of factory jobs must go somewhere, and Africa has the workers. The complication is that...
Early-Warning Systems: Two Islands, One Test of Resilience Infrastructure
Economics - Global & Regional · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The headline green projects are measured in megawatts and billions. The early-warning component is measured in storms anticipated and droughts prepared for - and it may...
Africa Solar Belt: A Demonstration Pledge Meets a 600-Million Access Gap
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The Africa Solar Belt arrives wrapped in the language of access, but the early ledger reads more like a demonstration than a rollout. Proposed by China in September...
Cheap and Clean: Can Low-Cost Renewables Make African Factories Competitive
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Clean energy is usually sold as a climate story. In Africa, the more consequential pitch is industrial. Manufacturers compete on the cost of power as much as the cost of...
Selling Sunlight Downhill: Ethiopia and Djibouti Wire a Regional Power Trade
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Two countries with opposite problems make a market. Ethiopia has more hydropower than its own grid can absorb; Djibouti has almost no generation of its own and already buys...
Bui Dam: How Ghana Bought 400 MW on Commercial Terms From China
Ghana built the Bui hydropower dam to escape blackouts. Its US$292 million Chinese loan carried a 6.1 per cent rate and no grant element – a power-capacity story priced like a mortgage.
The Hall as Hard Asset: China’s Conference Centres and the Business Climate
A refurbished hall in Yaounde looks like a gift. Read as infrastructure, China’s conference-centre diplomacy is a quieter bet on Africa’s business environment.
A Roof Counted Twice: China’s Africa Housing, Seen From the Household
Social housing rarely makes the China-Africa ledger. In Djibouti two parallel schemes show what the household-facing side of infrastructure actually delivers – and what it leaves uncounted.
Small and Beautiful: China Recasts Africa Deals Around Airports and Grids
Beijing once measured its Africa ledger in mega-loans. The deals it signed with Chad and Senegal in 2024 are smaller, narrower and aimed at the everyday grid.
Rail’s return: Africa’s revival inside a larger modernisation arc
Rail is back on Africa’s agenda after decades of decline. The new lines are part of a wider story – and bounded by a financing gap measured in tens of billions.
Transport as integration: China’s footprint and the regional-knitting test
Beijing frames its railways and ports as a contribution to African integration. The continent’s own plans, PIDA and Agenda 2063, are the yardstick.
From port to inland market: the Northern Corridor’s longer arithmetic
Mombasa to the interior is the showcase corridor. The harder economics sit in the dry-season roads of Kenya’s north, where a day’s trip should take hours.
Small towns on the line: corridor infrastructure as a growth enabler
Flagship corridors are sold by capital-city endpoints. The quieter story is what happens to the towns the road passes through on the way.
Corridors over showpieces: why the link between projects matters most
A single railway is a ribbon-cutting. A working corridor is an economy. The gap between the two is where most African trade still loses money.
Ports as gateways: where China’s African infrastructure meets the trade test
Beijing’s white paper counts almost 100 ports built across Africa. Whether those quays move African goods, or mostly imports, is the harder question.
Bridges as Multipliers: Mozambique’s 3km Span and Its 4% Debt
Africa’s longest suspension bridge cut a six-hour journey to 90 minutes across Maputo Bay. It also left Mozambique repaying a US$785m loan at 4% – a multiplier of commerce, and of debt.
Roads First: How 100,000km of Chinese-Built Tarmac Reshaped Africa
China’s foreign ministry counts nearly 100,000km of highways built across Africa. The headline rail projects get the attention – but roads, quieter and more numerous, did the heavier lifting.
TAZARA’s Real Cargo: Copper to the Sea Through Dar es Salaam
Rehabilitating TAZARA is sold as a rail story. Its point is the sea – a mineral corridor delivering Zambian copper to Dar es Salaam, racing US- and Japan-backed routes for the same ore.
TAZARA Reborn: A US$1.4bn Bet on Reviving Africa’s Mao-Era Railway
China built TAZARA in the 1970s as a gift of solidarity, then watched it decay. A US$1.4bn deal now revives the line – this time as a 30-year commercial concession, not a present.
Kano-Maradi: A Rail Line Built to Loosen a Landlocked Country’s Knot
The Kano-Maradi railway is sold as regional integration – landlocked Niger reaching Nigerian ports. But its lead builder is Portuguese, its earthworks Chinese, and its bill near US$2bn.
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