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!
