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October 7, 2025

Chinese companies are changing the way they operate in Africa: here’s how

Elisa Gambino, University of Manchester and Costanza Franceschini, Leiden University

African governments and other local actors have a crucial role to play in shaping the activities of Chinese firms.

May 29, 2023

Gediminas Lesutis, University of Amsterdam and Zhengli Huang, Tongji University

African governments have more influence on China-funded projects than mainstream narratives acknowledge.

October 25, 2022

Gediminas Lesutis, University of Amsterdam

Mega-projects tend to represent the interests of state and business elites.

Gediminas Lesutis
Marie Curie Fellow, University of Amsterdam
Zhengli Huang
Post-doctoral Researcher, Tongji University
Elisa Gambino
Hallsworth Fellow in Political Economy, University of Manchester
Costanza Franceschini
Postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology., Leiden University