Huajian in Ethiopia: A Shoemaker as the Test Case for Industrial Linkage
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 If any single firm is meant to prove that China-Ethiopia manufacturing linkage works, it is Huajian. The shoemaker set up two production lines at the Eastern Industrial...
Ports as gateways: where China’s African infrastructure meets the trade test
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A port is the most visible kind of progress - cranes, container stacks, a deepwater berth where shallow water used to be. China's foreign ministry counts close to 100...
TAZARA’s Real Cargo: Copper to the Sea Through Dar es Salaam
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A railway is judged by its track; a corridor is judged by its port. The US$1.4bn revival of the 1,860km TAZARA line is framed as restoring a dilapidated railway, but the...
Kano-Maradi: A Rail Line Built to Loosen a Landlocked Country’s Knot
Economics - Global & Regional · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Regional integration stories usually star a single flag. The Kano-Maradi railway refuses the simplicity. Pitched as a corridor that links three northern Nigerian states -...
Nigeria’s Coastal Rail: A 1,400km Promise Against a Decade of Delay
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A railway is meant to be the most settled kind of infrastructure - steel laid once, then run for a century. Nigeria's coastal line is the opposite. The...
Talent Development: How Luban Workshops Became a Policy Pillar, Not a Footnote
Vocational schools and training pledges have moved from the margins of China-Africa policy to a named pillar – with real numbers attached and real questions about who they serve.
South-South Exchange: China-Africa Ties as Knowledge, Not Only Capital
The roads and ports dominate the headlines, but the more durable transfer between China and Africa may be training, research centres and technical know-how.
China-Africa Expos: When Headline Deal Values Outrun Signed Contracts
The Changsha expo closed with US$11.4 billion in signed projects and a further US$43 billion merely announced. The gap between the two numbers is the story.
Zero-Tariff Access: Why Open Gates Do Not Yet Mean Full Shelves
China has dropped tariffs to zero on 100 percent of tariff lines for least-developed African states. The harder work – meeting export protocols – is only beginning.
Beyond Aid: China-Africa Trade Reads as Expansion, With a Balance Question
China-Africa trade hit a record US$295.6 billion in 2024 – a business story, not an aid story. The unresolved question is whether the expansion runs both ways.
Roads, Rails and Wires: China’s African Build-Out and the Bill That Follows
China reports nearly 100,000 km of roads and over 10,000 km of railways built across Africa. Kenya’s flagship line shows why the build matters – and why the repayment terms matter as much.
Reading the Flow Data: China Is a Quarter of Africa’s Infrastructure Plan
Official flow data shows China financing roughly a quarter of Africa’s priority infrastructure. The harder finding is that money is not the binding constraint – project structuring is.
From Projects to a Market: China’s Africa Pivot Meets AfCFTA’s Bigger Test
China spent two decades building bilateral projects in Africa. AfCFTA asks a harder question – whether they add up to a single continental market or stay a collection of bilateral deals.
PIDA and the Belt and Road: China Funds the Corridors Africa Already Planned
Africa’s own infrastructure blueprint predates Chinese finance. The 2024 FOCAC summit promised 30 projects to advance it – the test is whether they follow the continent’s plan or Beijing’s map.
China and the African Union: A Dialogue Channel That Outpaces Its Receipts
The China-AU strategic dialogue promises co-ordinated development governance. Yet its clearest output to date is a single building, not a shared decision-making system.
Africa CDC’s New Home: A US$80 Million Headquarters and a Lesson in Health Sovereignty
China built Africa’s disease-control headquarters in Addis Ababa after a US retreat. The pandemic-born institution now houses its laboratories in a donated building.
A Gift in Glass and Concrete: The AU Headquarters and the Politics of Being Built
China funded the African Union’s US$200 million home in Addis Ababa. Its 99.9-metre tower honours African unity – and raises a question about who builds the continent’s institutions.
From Pledge to Practice: FOCAC’s 2025 Scorecard Shows the Work Behind the Promises
Nine months after Beijing’s summit, a coordinators’ meeting in Hunan put numbers to the follow-through – 35 outcomes across ten sectors.
Joint Modernization: The Idea China Is Using to Reframe Its Africa Role
Beijing now describes its African partnership through six characteristics of modernization, positioning itself as a fellow traveller rather than a creditor.
Beijing 2024: China Reframes Africa Ties as a Shared Modernization Project
A summit that once led with infrastructure now leads with a word: modernization. The pledge is RMB 360 billion – about US$50 billion – and a smaller-is-better posture.
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