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The China-Africa Knowledge Project

Strengthening cross-regional research networks and collaboration

The China-Africa Knowledge Project at the Social Science Research Council is a two-year program of activities designed to complement current SSRC initiatives on Asia and Africa. It seeks to deepen understanding of China’s new engagement with the African region and situate emergent scholarship on China and Africa within broader scholarly and policy discourses about ongoing global transformations.

Launched in collaboration with the Chinese in Africa-Africans in China Research Network, this project will strengthen existing research networks and widen their reach through a series of web-based activities; and facilitate new collaborations by convening a cross-regional, inter-disciplinary Working Group on China-Africa, consisting of a small number of leading scholars. While the China-Africa relationship will continue to be of key interest, the SSRC will also use this initial focus on China-Africa as a model for understanding the wider range of interactions between Africa and emerging powers, and China (and other parts of Asia) and the Global South, and to explore new narratives and relationships in a changing global order.  

This program reflects two central components of the SSRC mission--bringing social science knowledge and thinking to bear on important global issues, and catalyzing innovation in social science research through interdisciplinary and comparative, cross-regional intellectual encounters. 

 

 

Project Director
Tatiana Carayannis
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Supported by Funding from

  • The Henry Luce Foundation

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