Last week President Drumpf reportedly singled out Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries” whose people were not the kind of immigrants the United States wanted. At the time, I happened to be in Serekunda, Gambia’s...
To me, the most interesting part about these connections is that they form a new kind of globalization, one that a lot of the world isn’t paying attention to, what one researcher described as a form of “globalization...
The enormous project brings with it many vital questions, and, currently, few clear answers. What will the negotiations with Africa look like and who will be represented? How will financing be deployed and debt managed? How will land...
In 2011, the BBC published a documentary on Chinese migrants in Africa, titled “The Chinese Are Coming.” Barely six years later, Western media such as the Financial Times and Quartz now say the Chinese are leaving, alleging that...
