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Silk Roads Roundtable with De:Link//Re:Link Fellows
By John Njenga Karugia
We were privileged to host four international fellows this past Summer Semester. During their stint in Berlin, we held a Silk Roads Roundtable session where we discussed various research approaches to study the Belt and Road

Infrastructures of Memory: EU-China Global Geopolitical Competition and its Effects on Africa
Our PI John Njenga Karugia (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will give the next Silk Road Talk on 22 November from 4.15 to 5.45 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Department of Asian and African Studies at Invalidenstraße 118, Room …

New Insights about the Belt and Road from (Eur)Asia to (East)Africa: Strategies, Narratives and Reactions
Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE World Café |Tuesday, 28 November 2023 | 4pm – 5:30pm
10 years after Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as the New Silk Road, it is

The Digital Silk Roads in Africa: How the Chinese Huawei Group is Rewriting the Future of Technologies in Senegal
We are delighted to anounce that Dr. Ibrahima Niang (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar/ZMO, Berlin) will give the next Silk Road Talk on 25 October from 4.15 to 5.45 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Department of Asian …

BRI, CPEC and Road Safety in Pakistan
By Hifza Irfan and Muhammad Zaman
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the biggest projects in transportation, freight, road, rail, air, and maritime linkage in the history of the world, but it concerns itself inadequately with road

Localizing Confucius Institutes Through African Languages: The Confucius Institute in Dar es Salaam
Two Confucius Institutes exist in Tanzania. Their construction was financed by China and they are hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Dodoma. The Tanzanian Director of the Confucius Institute at

