Africa: Why Is Africa Always Portrayed As a Passive Woman?

18 September 2018
analysis

Africa is often talked about as an object to be consumed. Even those who resist this discourse sometimes employ it.

At the start of this month, leaders of forty African countries went to Beijing to meet with the Chinese government. This massive forum happens every three years, alternating between an African city and Beijing. And every three years, without fail and with increasing intensity, the gathering launches a thousand think pieces on what China's increasing involvement in Africa means for Africa and other countries with interests in the region.

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