Query: AAfrican literary or other genres that deal with Africa's connection with China

Lorna Zukas (she/her/hers) Discussion

Dear Colleagues,

 
A student has asked for recommendations of African literary or other genres that deal with Africa's connection with China.
 
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
 
Thank you,

Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon
Associate Professor
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department

and African Studies Program
Co-Director, African Feminist Initiative
Pennsylvania State University
129 Willard Building
University Park
PA 16802
USA

Email:  gxb26@psu.edu
Tel:      (814) 865 2372
Fax:     (814) 863 3578
www.gabeba.com
 
Extraordinary Professor
Department of English
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

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Some of these sources might be helpful in looking at cultural aspects of Chinese and African interactions:

Musanga, Terrence. "Perspectives of Zimbabwe-Chinese Relations in Wallace Chirumiko's 'Made in China' (2012) and NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013)." Journal of African Cultural Studies 29, no. 1 (March 2017): 81-95.

Sylvanus, Nina, and Linn Axelsson. "Women Traders' Responses to the Entry of Chinese Wax Prints in Accra (Ghana) and Lome (Togo)." In The Rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions, edited by F. Cheru and C. Obi, 132-41. London: Zed Books, 2010.

Sylvanus, Nina. "Chinese Devils, the Global Market, and the Declining Power of Togo's Nana-Benzes." African Studies Review 56? no. 1 (April 2013): 65-80.

Braun, Lesley Nicole. "Cyber Siren: What Mami Wata Reveals About the Internet and Chinese Presence in Kinshasa." Canadian Journal of African Studies 49, no. 2 (August 2015): 301-18.

Ndjio, Basile. "'Magic Body' and 'Cursed Sex': Chinese Sex Workers as 'Bitch-Witches' in Cameroon." African Affairs 113, no. 452 (2014): 370-86.

Gabeba,

I was thinking your student could take a look at this recent article:

Fan, C. T. "Battle Hymn of the Afropolitan: Sino-African Futures in Ghana Must Go and Americanah." Journal of Asian American Studies, vol. 20 no. 1, 2017, pp. 69-93. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/jaas.2017.0005

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/647480

-eric

Hi Gabeba,

If your student reads Portuguese, Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa's 2013 novel Entre as Memórias Silenciadas has a long passage on Chinese immigration to Mozambique.

Best,

Eleanor

further reading suggested:

Kohnert, Dirk (2016): Chinese And African Migrant Entrepreneur’s Articulation Shaped By African Agency. Strategic Review for Southern Africa, vol. 38 2016.2: 156-166

Kohnert, D. (2010): Are Chinese in Africa more innovative than Africans? Comparing Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian entrepreneurial migrants. Hamburg: GIGA-WP, No. 140

Books
Giese, Karsten / Marfaing, Laurence (eds.) (2016), Entrepreneurs africains et chinois: Les impacts sociaux d’une rencontre particulière, Paris: Karthala

Marfaing, Laurence / Boesen, Elisabeth (eds.) (2014), Mobilités dans l'espace ouest africain: ressources, développement et intégration régionale, Paris: Karthala

Refereed Articles
Marfaing, Laurence / Thiel, Alena (forthcoming), New actors, new orders: The changing norms of market entry in Senegal’s and Ghana’s urban Chinese markets, in: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute

Marfaing, Laurence / Thiel, Alena (2015), Networks, spheres of influence and the mediation of opportunity: the case of West African trade agents in China, in: Journal of Panafrican Studies, 7, 10, 65-84

Marfaing, Laurence (2015), Importations de marchandises chinoises et mobilité sous-régionale en Afrique de l'ouest, in: Cahiers D'etudes Africaines, LV (2), 218, 359-379

Marfaing, Laurence / Thiel, Alena (2015), Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban Senegal and Ghana: Structural Change and the Performativity of Rumours, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, 48, 3, 405-423

Thiel, Alena / Marfaing, Laurence (2014), Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban Senegal and Ghana: Structural Change and the Performativity of Rumors , in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, 48, 3, 405-423

Thiel, Alena / Marfaing, Laurence (2013), The Impact of Chinese Business on Market Entry in Ghana and Senegal, in: Africa. Journal of the International African Institute, 83, 4, 646-669

Marfaing, Laurence / Thiel, Alena (forthcoming), African Entrepreneurs in China: True Actors of Globalization, in: Ute Röschenthaler / Alessandro Jedlowski (eds.), Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America: Economic Networks and Cultural Interactions, London: Zed Books

Marfaing, Laurence (2016), "Made in China" et le rêve de Chine; une alternative à l'occident, in: Karsten Giese / Laurence Marfaing (eds.), Entrepreneurs africains et chinois, Les impacts sociaux d’une rencontre particulière, Paris: Karthala, 305-341

Giese, Karsten / Marfaing, Laurence / Thiel, Alena (2016), Du rejet des autres à leur implication dans les dynamiques de changement social, in: Karsten Giese / Laurence Marfaing (eds.), Entrepreneurs africains et chinois, Les impacts sociaux d’une rencontre particulière, Paris: Karthala, 7-28