China-Africa Knowledge Exchange: Development trajectories and Shared Paradigms

A State and Market Cluster Sponsored DPU70 Dialogue in Development Event

Given their respective population size and potential for development, the relationship between China and Africa is one of the most consequential for the 21st century. The past two decades have witnessed a rapid ascent of the Chinese economy on the global stage and the country’s growing presence in the African continent. At the same time, African countries are grappling with poverty reduction and structural transformation, a task China has tackled in its own recent history.

The expanding China-Africa relationship has the potential not only to change the two parties’ development trajectories, but also the way in which development is imagined and undertaken around the world.

While most studies have focused their attention on flows of capital, people, goods, or technology between China and Africa, this dialogue explores the exchange of ideas and knowledge for development between them.

Key questions for the panel are: How are development trajectories and paradigms changing in Africa? What is the role of China in these processes? What has China learnt from its interaction with African countries?

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Chair

Professor Julio D Davila, Professor of Urban Policy and International Development, DPU, UCL

Dr Alessio Koliulis, Lecturer (Teaching) Urban Economic Development, DPU, UCL

Speaker

Professor Giles Mohan, Professor of Human Geography at The Open University

Discussants

James J Oporia-Ekwaro, Former Ugandan ambassador to China and Teaching Fellow at DPU, UCL

Dr Jing Zhang, Research Fellow, Centreer for Sustainable Structural Transformation and Department of Economics, at the School of Oriental and African (SOAS), University of London.

Professor Le-Yin Zhang, Professor of Urban Economic Development, DPU, UCL

Image: Puzzle piece symbolising the relationship between China and Africa. Image created using Open AI.