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Unveiling Africa Speaker Series 2008
Over the past decade, China and Africa's relations has strengthened in the area of foreign trade, migration and capital investments. China's foreign investment in Africa has risen to $850 million and China's share of African export has risen from 1% to 10%. China accounts for 65% of Sudanese exports and 35% of Angolan products sold abroad. By the end of 2008, it is estimated that 120,000 Sudanese students will go to china for a university degree. In addition, it is believed by the Chinese government that 100 million foreigners will soon be speaking Chinese. On the flip side of the coin, there is the humanitarian crisis in ally countries like Zimbabwe with food shortage, Congo with the Civil war and Darfur genocide that has killed over 400,000 civilians and displaced over 2 million people. Pundits have argued that China's authoritative position as Africa's nos 2 trade partner puts China in a position to take a bolder action against the humanitarian crisis by imposing trade sanctions on her partners.
China's action or inaction in Africa is highly political and deserves a more detailed study.
Unveiling Africa Speaker Series aims to shed light on this subject area; the event will discuss the subject area from a Historical, Political and Humanitarian perspective.
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Dr Ann McDougall (Director, Middle Eastern and African Studies, University of Alberta)
Mr Simin Yu (China Institute, University of Alberta)
Date: Sat, Nov 22 2008
Venue: University of Alberta, Telus Center 217
Time: 12.30-2.00pm
For More Information:
Please contact Chi-Chi Imoka at (780)7073501
Sources
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5114980.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7343060.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6745323.stm
www.theirc.org
Speakers Bio
Dr Ann McDougall
E.Ann McDougall is Professor in the Department of History and Classics, and Director of Middle Eastern and African Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) She joined the University of Alberta in 1986, having received her PhD from the University of Birmingham, U.K. (1980). Her research interests are geographically located in North West Africa (most particularly southern Morocco and Mauritania) and conceptually shaped by questions about power and identity as played out in Saharan societies. Among more than thirty-five articles and book chapters developing these ideas recently are: ”Dilemmas in the practice of rachat in French West Africa”, in K. Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl (eds.) The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption (Princeton University Press: 2006); “Living the legacy of Slavery: between discourse and reality”, Cahiers d’etudes Africaines, special double issue “Esclavage modern ou modernite d’esclavage?” XLV (3-4) 179/80 (December 2005). She has recently guest-edited a volume of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies on the ‘War on Terror in the Sahara’ (2007), and another is forthcoming from the Canadian Journal of African Studies – a memorial to the late scholar of Islam in Africa, Nehemia Levtzion (2008).
Simin Yu
Simin Yu is a third year law student at the University of Alberta. He was born and raised in Shanghai, China. In 2003, He graduated from East China University of Politics and Law with a civil law LL.B. degree. After that, he came to Edmonton and spent the next three years pursuing his Master of Arts degree in political science at U of A. He worked as a summer student at an international law firm in China last year. He is now working at the U of A China Institute on a part-time basis, doing research on China’s foreign investment policy. Simin will start his article with an Edmonton-based law firm in the summer of 2009.
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