Yi-Fu Tuan Geography Lecture Series

Chinese enhanced role in Africa’s energy sector has evoked a parochial imagination of China-Africa relations with China being labelled as a ‘neo-colonialist’ and an ‘imperialist’. Many Chinese projects are intertwined with aid, trade & investment, prompting imaginaries of a dragon ‘scrambling for resources’ and threatening good governance practices. But recent data has shown the picture is more varied with a range of winners and losers, dependable on local specifics and nature of the industries.