SADC: Two Competing Events Tonight

Tonight there are two competing events: a China happy hour and an Africa tweetup. Both events will be great!

Dear Colleagues, I am looking forward to seeing a number of you tonight! Before I talk about the lineup of events, I wanted to thank Pete for inviting us to the Nigeria Development & Finance Forum. Between the free dinner, the excellent speakers, and the fantastic networking, yesterday evening was a smashing success and I hope he forwards more of such events our way in the future! Now, lets get down to business: I have made a few changes to the newsletter, based on feedback I got from the group. A lot of people enjoyed the old style, but I could not modify the text boxes to my liking, so I had to get something a little simpler. Elleka informed me that The Diplomat magazine is looking for new writers to submit content for publication! If anyone is interested in submitting an article relating to the Asia-Pacific, including Sino-Africa issues, feel free to contact her on LinkedIn. Edward sent out a message originally from the Carter Center in which they are looking for Liberian bloggers, writers, scholars, or community leaders who write or work on China-Africa issues. If you know any such people, please have them contact Yang Fu, who is a graduate assistant there, via yang.fu647@gmail.com. The website they run is published in English and Chinese, and they will translate the piece into Chinese for a Chinese audience.  Tonight there are two competing events: a China happy hour and an Africa tweetup. I am sorry I forgot to put the China event on Monday's email, that was more a careless error than nefarious sabotage. Both events will be great, I have been to two of the China happy hours before, but this time I am trying my hand at another event. PS If any of you hear about cool events in the area, please let us know! The fact that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was at Politics and Prose last Wednesday and I did not tell the group about it is scandalous! Area Events DC China young professionals happy hour By: ATLAS-China Staffing Solutions Date and Time: Thursday, June 6, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Location: Science Club 1136 19th Street NW   DC Africa Tweetup By: Diaspora African Women's Network Date and Time: Thursday, June 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Location: Lost Society - Rooftop 2001 14th Street NW Author event, Horace Campbell By: Busboys and Poets Books Date and Time: Wednesday - Saturday, June 10, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Location: Busboys and Poets 1025 5th Street NW U. S. Export - Import Opportunities for African Consumable Products 2013 Trade Show By: U. S. Export - Import Opportunities for African Consumable Products 2013 Trade Show Date and Time: Monday - Saturday, June 12 - 15 Location: Baltimore Convention Center 1 W Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 Hilton Baltimore Hotel (Awards Dinner) 401 W Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 Conferences International Convention of Asia Scholars 8 Oxford University China Africa Network & Alpha Professional Network Emerging Powers in Africa Forum Calls for Papers Call for Papers: State Policy and the Cultural Politics of Heritage-Making in East and Southeast Asia -  International Institute for Asian Studies (Thank you Prof. Park)  Call for Proposals: China, UK, Low-Income Countries and Agriculture/Food Security - AgriTT (Thank you Prof. Brautigam) Opportunities Associate Editor - Devex Future Opportunities-Students - Deloitte Research Associate and Program Coordinator-Freeman Chair in China - Center for Strategic and International Studies Of Interest Art of love -  Unusual story about a Sierra Leonean wife and her Chinese husband, Chinese art, and love at first sight. China in African education – A force for good? - A balanced overview of Chinese involvement in African education. Chinese FDI Stock in Africa Trivial - Interesting piece that argues that Chinese FDI is nowhere near the levels of magnitude as Chinese trade. Sounds right to me but does anyone have any comments? Settled Strangers Asian Business Elites in East Africa (1800-2000) - This book talks about South Asians in East Africa, but may be of interest to people studying identity formation of national minorities in African countries "Shanglin County Clique’s” African Gold Rush: Get Rich or Die Trying (translation) - Interesting translation of a May 15 article from the 21st Century Business Herald article about Chinese illegal gold mining in Ghana Tanzania: Civil Society Group Asserts Higher Mtwara Riot Death Toll - Riots in Mtwara broke out over a gas pipeline, which has some Chinese backing, and a few MPs are accusing foreign interference trying to counteract Chinese influence 加纳军队被指残杀劫掠中国公民 多人遇难 [中文] ​- Chinese reactions to the detentions of 124 illegal Chinese gold miners in Ghana. Member Contributions M, Edward, "The Institute of Current World Affairs on Senegal and the Sahel & the Ambassador of Niger Shines" Africa in DC M, Edward, "The Pleasing Results of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Wardrobe Malfunction & Her Thoughts on Race, pan-Africanism, and Gender" Africa in DC Shinn, David, "Analysis of China-Africa Relations" The official blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Shinn, David, "China, India, BRICS and Africa" The official blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Shinn, David, "China, Soft Power and Africa" The official blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Shinn, David, "Companies from China and Taiwan Face Labor Problems in South Africa" The official blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Shinn, David, "Communal Violence in South Sudan" The official blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Shinn, David, "East Asia's Lessons for Africa" The official blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Shinn, David, "Germany, China and Africa" The official blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Watts, Elleka, "Chinese Farms Go Global" The Diplomat

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