Africa-China journalism

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In November 2016, Sinica co-host Jeremy Goldkorn attended a conference in his native South Africa called the Africa-China Journalists Forum. The forum was convened to discuss the often-polarized media coverage of China’s involvement in Africa, and to consider how to accentuate the African perspective — rather than the Chinese or Western ones — on how China is changing lives in Africa. In addition to moderating the forum, Jeremy interviewed two organizers of the forum who are longtime observers of China in Africa: Barry Van Wyk and Bob Wekesa. Both are highly knowledgeable of journalism in Africa, and work for the Africa-China Reporting Project at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, where the forum was held. In this short episode, Barry and Bob explain the differences between Chinese, African, and Western journalists, the state of reporting on China-in-Africa issues, and the work that the Africa-China Reporting Project is doing to build a “human grassroots approach” to reporting such a large and controversial story. They also recommended several of their favorite stories that have come out of the project in its work to sponsor aspiring African and Chinese journalists: Nfor Kingsley Monde on China’s role driving deforestation in Cameroon, and on the flipside, Manyanye Paul Ikome on how China has contributed greatly to improving public health in that same country. Other stories on health care, such as this one by Fousseni Saibou. A few highlights from Chinese journalists: Chen Xiaochen on a sisal farm in Tanzania, and Yang Meng on the gold mines of Ghana. Fredrick Mugira on Uganda’s copper mines. Stories on the Standard Gauge Railway being built in Kenya and east Africa, such as this one by Allan Olingo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynica podcast, the week's discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina.
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0:22.4	and at the website, supChina.com. It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation
0:29.0	that is reshaping the world. I'm Kaiser Guo, and this week on Seneca, we bring you a conversation
0:34.9	that my co-host Jeremy Goldcorn taped back in November of last year when he was in his native South Africa for the Africa-China Journalists Forum, where he spoke to Dr. Bob Weakasa, a postdoctoral follow at Witts Journalism in South Africa, and to Barry Van Wic, who is project coordinator of the China Africa Reporting Project at Witts Journalism.
0:57.6	Enjoy the podcast, and over to you, Jeremy.
1:00.5	Barry Van Wack and Bob Wackhese, welcome to the Seneca podcast.
1:04.2	Today I've spent a really interesting day with you and some of your guests at the Vitvartisrant University, Africa-China Reporting Project.
1:15.0	There was a forum on journalism connected to the story of Chinese involvement in Africa and
1:23.1	African involvement with China, journalists from all over the continent and from China speaking about all kinds of issues.
1:30.5	Can you give me a little bit of background about this project?
1:33.8	You know, what is it?
1:34.8	What do you do?
1:36.3	And, you know, how was it conceived and carried out?
1:40.3	Hi, Jeremy.
1:41.1	I think the basic idea of the African-China reporting project is to support
1:44.8	enable African and Chinese journalists to do journalism on what we now call Africa-China.
1:52.3	This event today was really about putting Africa first. The more common designation is China
1:58.5	Africa, right? Is this what you might commonly hear.
2:05.5	But for us in this project, we've now changed it to Africa-China as in to put our African location, our African orientation, and the African interests that we have at heart to put those
2:10.9	first. So this was this event today, the Africa-China reporting project. We in this project
2:15.6	have an event every year in which we bring journalists, African, Chinese,
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