Africa’s largest e-commerce platform has discovered an unexpected weapon in its battle against Chinese shopping giants: embracing the very merchants that power its competitors while capitalizing on ...

China continues to dominate trade with the continent. But overlending—and US initiatives to extend its security and investment footprint—are challenging its position. China solidified its position as ...

China's role in Africa is shifting from state-owned enterprise-led infrastructure to private consumer goods. Surge in Chinese exports and small entrepreneurs targeting Africa's growing consumer market ...

Despite much talk of a slowdown, there is reason to believe that Chinese loans to African countries will increase in 2024. Throughout both the COVID-19 pandemic and much of 2023, there was been an ...

South Africa accounted for just under one-third of Chinese module exports to Africa in June 2025, according to Ember. Image: JUWI Renewable Energies. Africa imported over 15GW of solar panels from ...

Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus. In May 2025, African countries imported ...

Elisa Gambino’s work was undertaken under the European Research Council advanced grant for the project ‘African Governance and Space: Transport Corridors, Border Towns and Port Cities in Transition’ ...