Asian Women in Africa: Made in China Edition

Continuing the celebration of International Women's Day, hosts Winslow Robertson and Dr. Nkemjika Kalu explore what it means to be an Asian women in an African country. This week, we have one guest share her experience as a Chinese development worker for a French non-governmental organization: Ms. Lin Yiran, program manager of social water management currently based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at Solidarités International. Please listen!

P.S. The recording quality was not quite as strong as we would have liked, we are sorry to say.

Recommendations

• Winslow
• China is so bad at conservation that it had to launch the most impressive water-pipeline project ever by Lily Kuo
• China’s desperate need for water is forcing the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people by Lily Kuo
• Any China-Africa lecture by Amb. David Shinn
• Pru Ukwi
•  Dr. Kalu
• Hunt for Malaysian Plane by BBC News
• Lin Yiran
• Blue Elephant

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The Africa Daily

Asian Women in Africa: Scholars

In a bizarre celebration of International Women's Day, hosts Winslow Robertson and Dr. Nkemjika Kalu explore what it means to be an Asian women in an African country. This week, we had three guests share their experiences as Asian women scholars who do on-the-ground research in Africa: Prof. Yoon Jung Park, convener/coordinator of the (world-famous) Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network, who is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University with affiliations as Senior Research Associate of the Sociology Department at Rhodes University; Solange Guo Chatelard, a PhD candidate at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and an associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany, whose work studying Chinese communities in Zambia got her a job a production assistant in the film "When China Met Africa"; and Vivian Lu, a PhD student at Stanford University's Department of Anthropology looking at economic networks linking African merchants to production and trade sites of everyday goods in Asia and Africa. Lucky us!

Recommendations

• Winslow
• Risky Business: Is China Wavering in Africa? by Jacob Kushner
•  Dr. Kalu
• Kenyan comedy finds laughs in charities 'saving Africa' by Daisy Carrington
• The Samaritans by Xeinium Productions
• Solange Guo Chatelard
• Fong and the Indians by Paul Theroux
• The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan by Luke Patey
• Viviane Lu
• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
• Prof. Yoon Jung Park
• Temporary Chinese Migration to Madagascar: Local Perceptions, Economic Impacts and Human Capital Flows by Cornelia Tremann

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Mighty Mike

The Africa Daily

Asian Women in Africa: NGOs and Entrepreneurs

In a bizarre celebration of International Women's Day, hosts Winslow Robertson and Dr. Nkemjika Kalu explore what it means to be an Asian women in an African country. This week, we had three guests to share their experiences in the NGO and entrepreneurial; world: Jules Shen, an employee of Dalberg in Senegal; Evanna Hu of g.Maarifa in Nairobi; and Eugenia Lee advises nonprofits and startups on how to use ethnographic methods for better engagement of communities. If you are interested in topics of race, gender, and perception, this month's series should make you VERY happy!

Recommendations

• Winslow
• Who says Chinese Cuisine isn’t authentic and sophisticated in Kenya? by Susan Wong
•  Dr. Kalu
• Chinese Men with Black Women & African Wives by Fauna
• China pillages Africa like old colonialists says Jane Goodall by Christophe Beaudufe
• Goodall wiser on chimps than ‘colonialism’ by Wu Yi
• Evanna Hu
• Unintended Consequences: How clumsy foreign advocates unwittingly helped Uganda's anti-gay bill become law by Elizabeth Palchik Allen
• Eugenia Lee
• Chinese Mafia 'setting base in Nairobi' by Nyambega Gisesa
• Jules Shen
• Agbogbloshie: the world's largest e-waste dump – in pictures by Kevin McElvaney
• Shanghai Restaurant
• Why China is still the dumping ground for the world’s electronic refuse by Lily Kuo

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Mighty Mike

The Africa Daily