by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 7, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Chinese-built industrial zones are often invoked as engines of Africa's export future. The recorded numbers ask for restraint. Their early scale was modest and...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 22, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The 186-kilometre Abuja-Kaduna railway opened in 2016 to do something a market-linkage project rarely promises directly: keep travellers alive. The parallel highway had...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 21, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The standard-gauge line linking Ethiopia to Djibouti was meant to settle a 753-kilometre problem: how a landlocked economy reaches the sea. It largely has, cutting the...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 17, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The aid frame no longer fits the China-Africa economic relationship, and the figures show why. Two-way trade reached a record US$295.6 billion in 2024 and ran at...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 17, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 For most of the China-Africa relationship the unit of account has been the project: a railway here, a port there, each negotiated state to state. The African...