Western media has long given Africa a consistently negative–if indeed often painfully accurate–portrayal as troubled, poor, corrupt and violent. Is China, now Africa’s biggest trading partner, engaged in a new public relations crusade to counter that image? If so, is China’s new campaign an even-handed one? See at Deborah Brautigam’s China in Africa “Africa’s Free Press Problem: Is China Causing It?”
From Henry Hall’s China Africa News