The China in Africa Podcast cover image

What a Railway in Kenya Reveals About How China Builds Things in Africa

The China in Africa Podcast

00:00

The African Agency Turn

In the last few years in Africa-China studies, there's been a lot of people have called the African agency turn. I think one thing that we ought to be careful about is not to fetishize and romanticize African agency. In spite of this complexity, hybridity, and different actions and interests that Chinese companies represent, they still structurally advance the power of Chinese state capital in Kenya.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app