Author: Mandira Bagwandeen
Mandira Bagwandeen is a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, and an alumna of Fudan University in China. She has experience working at think tanks, in the corporate sector, and lecturing at universities in South Africa. Mandira is affiliated with several international think-tanks: She is a Research Associate at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (Foundation for Strategic Research) in France, a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in the US, a Research Fellow at the Afro-Sino Centre of International Relations in Ghana, and a Research Contributor for the Nanyang Technical University-Singapore Business Federation (NTU-SBF) Centre for African Studies. Mandira has produced commentary and written several articles on Africa-China issues for various local and international media outlets. Her research interests include Africa-China relations, Africa’s regional integration and infrastructure development, emerging powers and Africa, and African and Asian geopolitics.
China Merchants Group Exporting Its Shekou Model of Port-industrial Development to Africa
As the final frontier for trade growth, Africa is the only region where exponential economic and cargo growth is still possible. The continent is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. However, many existing African ports do not have the capacity to accommodate a growing demand ...