“SECURING DEVELOPMENT: CHINA-AFRICA COOPERATION IN GOVERNANCE, PEACE & SECURITY”

Experts Seminar

“SECURING DEVELOPMENT: CHINA-AFRICA COOPERATION IN GOVERNANCE, PEACE & SECURITY”

October, 18 - 19 2018 Hemingways Hotel Karen, 09.00am – 05.30pm

Observatory on China Africa Relations

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Programme

Day one October 18, Thursday 2018 Activity All day International participants arrival at Hemingway’s Hotel, Karen 07.00- 09.00 pm Welcome Dinner Reception Day Two October 19, Friday 2018 Time Activity 07:30 – 08:15 am Breakfast – Hemingway’s Hotel Karen (International Participants) 08:30 – 09:00 am Arrival and registration – Hemingways Hotel Karen 09.00 -09.30 OPENING SESSION Opening remarks: • Professor Peter Kagwanja – Africa Policy Institute • Mr Li Xuhang - Charge’d affaires China Embassy to • Representative from Government of Kenya

09.30-09.45 am Group Photo Session 09.45-10.00 am HEALTH BREAK 10:00-11:00 am SESSION 1: Concepts, Strategies and visions defining Sino-Africa Moderator : Dr. David Monyae Panelists: • Prof. Peter Kagwanja – Chief Executive API • Prof. Peter Ndege – Dean, College of Social Sciences Moi University • Mr. Abdul Rahman Lamin - UNESCO • Prof. Levi Obonyo – Dean, School of Communication, Daystar University

Discussion: 11.00– 12.00 pm SESSION 2: Securing Development:Risks, Challenges and Solutions Moderator: Dr Yonas Adaye (PHD) • Dr Wachira Mwangi -Consultant Economic Development &Senior Associate Fellow • David Owiro – Africa Development Think Tank • Anzetse Were – Economist & Senior Associate Fellow -API 12.00- 13.00 pm LUNCH - BUFFET 13.00-14.00 pm SESSION 3: Sharing lessons in Governance, China-Africa Cooperation in anti- corruption

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Moderator: Prof. Peter Ndege Panelists • Prof.George Oreku– Univesity of Dar-es-salaam & Senior Associate Fellow – API • Dr David Monyae -Confucian Institute, University of Johannesburg South Africa & Senior Associate Fellow -API • Ms Njoki Mboce –Legal Advisor & Senior Associate Fellow – API • Munetsi Madakufamba -Executive Director, SARDC

Discussion: 14.00 -15.00pm SESSION 4: China’s Peace and Security Footprints in Africa Moderator: Munetsi Madakufamba Panelists: • Dr Yonas Adaye (PHD)-Associate Director, Insititute of Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) • Dr Wilson Muna – Kenyatta University & Senior Associate Fellow – API • Polycarp Omolo Ochilo - Senior Lecturer @ University of Nairobi

Discussion: 15.00-15.30pm HEALTH BREAK 15.30-16.30pm Facing the future: summary of proceedings Moderator : Peter Warutere

Panelists: • Dr David Monyae • Njoki Mboce • Prof. George Oreku • Abdul Rahman Lamin 16.30-17.30pm CLOSING SESSION • Remarks—Professor Peter Kagwanja 07.00pm Dinner ( at a venue to be advised)

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Concept Note

“SECURING DEVELOPMENT: CHINA-AFRICA COOPERATION IN GOVERNANCE, PEACE & SECURITY” About the Seminar

The seminar provides a platform for experts to share their reviews and inputs on “Securing Development: China-Africa cooperation in governance, peace and security”, focusing on the evolving China-Africa relation, which has deepened in the last two decades.

The experts will review new developments and perspectives on China-Africa relations, especially after the Beijing FOCAC summit held on September 2018, hosted in China and attended by 54 African States, which reviewed progress in the implementation of the 10 wholistic points Africa agreed with China three years ago in the 6th FOCAC summit in Johannesburg in December 2015.

Outcome: The immediate outcome of the seminar will be a special state-of-the art paper on “Lessons Shared for China Africa Cooperation in Peace, Security and Governance” which will be shared with policy makers, academics and other stakeholders. The paper will also be edited and submitted for publication by the “China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies”1 (Shanghai).

Format: The seminar will take the form of brainstorming sessions involving experts. To ensure 1 Journal owned by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) and World Century Publishing Corporation (WCPC)

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views are shared efficiently in result-oriented and open manner the seminar shall involve a panel discussion with interactions from the participants. There will be several panels that will discuss thematic issues relating to lessons China and Africa can share in the critical areas of peace, security and governance—as necessary conditions for sustainable development, which include:

1. Concepts, Strategies and visions defining Sino-Africa relations; 2. Securing Development: Risks, Challenges and Solutions; 3. Sharing Lessons in Governance: China-Africa Cooperation in anti-Corruption; 4. China’s Peace and Security Footprints in Africa.

The identified thematic areas of discussions are based on the on-going research by the China- Africa Relations Observatory2 (OCAR), an initiative of API that promotes evidence-based policy research on the ever-changing dynamics of China-Africa relations and dialogue on cutting-edge issues on Sino-Africa engagements.

Participants: Attending the Experts’ seminar will be approximately 30 participants drawn from universities, think-tanks, policy, diplomatic and media communities, relevant United Nations agencies, African Governments, including the Government of the Republic of Kenya.

Seminar Governance: The seminar is organized by Africa Policy Institute, through its Observatory on China-Africa Relations (OCAR). Africa Policy Institute is an independent, not-for-profit pan- African think tank that is providing policy-relevant and evidence-driven research and analysis for Africa’s solutions in security, governance and foreign policy.

API, has over the last decade developed great competences and capacity in the areas of Africa- China relations, where its experts have widely published in books, book chapters, articles and opinion pieces. API has also convened seminars/workshops. Its experts and scholars have participated in conferences both within Africa and internationally. We have also been actively involved in media debates hosted by electronic channels such as radios and TV stations.

2 http://www.ocar.africapi.org/

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List of Participants

Mr. Li Xuhang

Mr. Li Xuhang, currently Charge d’Affaires a.i. in Chinese Embassy in Kenya, has rich experience in African affairs. Before 2004, he worked in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and Chinese Embassy in Namibia. 2004- 2007, he was Deputy Director in the Department of African Affairs in MFA. 2007-2010, he served as the Vice Mayor of Yiwu City in China. 2010-2012, he was the Director in the Department of African Affairs in MFA. 2012-2015, he was the Counsellor in Chinese Embassy in Tanzania. 2015-2016, he was the Head of Chinese Office for FOCAC Johannesburg Summit. 2016-Present, he is the Minister Counsellor in Chinese Embassy in Kenya.

Prof. Peter Kagwanja

Peter Kagwanja is a Kenyan intellectual and expert on security, governance and strategic issues. He holds a PhD in Politics and International law from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). He is the founding President and Chief Executive of the Africa Policy Institute (API) a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies (IDIS), University of Nairobi, and at the National Defence College. Kagwanja is an expert consultant with African Governments, the African Union, IGAD and United Nations agencies on Governance (elections), security (Violent extremism and terrorism), humanitarian and strategic issues. He is a former adviser to the Government of President Mwai Kibaki (2008-2013) and provided intellectual and strategic expertise on Kenya’s New Constitution (2010). Prior to this he variously served as Research Director/Executive Director at the Human Science Research Council (HSRC) (2007-2008) and Director at the International Crisis Group, Brussels (2004-2007). Kagwanja has been a visiting scholar at Rhodes University, University of Pretoria, University of Illinois, Oxford University and University of Leiden, among others. He has authored numerous articles and books, including Kenya’s Uncertain Democracy (London, 2010); Kenya: Eye on the Nation (Nairobi, 2015); Paving Africa’s Silk Road: China-Africa Relations in the 21st Century (Nairobi: 2016) Kagwanja’s latest book is Uhuru Kenyatta: A Legacy of Democracy and Development (2018).

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Prof. Peter Ndege

Prof. Peter Ndege graduated with a BA Hons, (Makerere University), PGDE (University of Nairobi), MA (University of Nairobi and a PHD (West Virginia University. He is presently a Professor of History in Moi University where he previously served as Head of Department of History and Dean, School of Arts and Social Sciences.

Prof. Levi Obonyo

Prof. Levi Obonyo is the dean of Daystar University’s school of communication, language and performing arts, and an Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies. He has been engaged in the field of communication for nearly 20 years, and has headed the Department of Communication since 2006 at Daystar University. He previously lectured as an adjunct at Drexel University, Eastern University and The University of Sciences. He is an external examiner at both undergraduate and graduate levels at several universities in the East African region. He is a newspaper columnist and a regular commentator on media issues. He is a former Chairman of the Media Council of Kenya and a member of the International Communication Association, the National Communication Association, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), and of Orbicom.

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Abdul Rahman Lamin

Abdul Rahman Lamin is Programme Specialist in Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO Multi-sectoral Office for Eastern Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya, a position he has held since January 2014. Between April 2009 and December 2013, he held the same post at UNESCO Office in Accra, Ghana, where he started his UNESCO (and UN) career. In the current position, he primarily provides programmatic leadership in the domain of social and human sciences, working closely with UNESCO programme sectors and across geographic regions, to coordinate regional and national interventions that are of exceptionally quality and profile, impact driven and highly visible in Member States. The responsibility also requires him to provide intellectual leadership in the conceptualization and promotion of interdisciplinary programming that links knowledge production with policy development, to address challenges of social transformations.

He further contributes to long-term strategic thinking in ensuring that UNESCO’s programmes, both at the national and regional levels align with the overall strategic vision of UN reform, as outlined in the Principles and Guidelines of the Regional UN System Development Group (R-UNSDG). In doing so, he contributes directly to positioning UNESCO in effectively engaging with various UN Country Team (UNCT) processes, including but not limited to the development of UNDAFs at the country level, and consequently exercising managerial responsibilities as UNESCO focal point for coordinating the Organization’s work within these, and other relevant UN bodies and structures. Since 2016, he has served as UNESCO’s focal point to UNCTs in Kenya and Tanzania, regularly participating in its activities as a full-fledged member in Kenya, and in the case of Tanzania, backstopping the relevant personnel, while also providing overall technical guidance on a number of intersectoral and thematic programmes. He also deputizes UNESCO’s Regional Director for Eastern Africa in the Directors’ forum of the R-UNSDG/ESA.

Before joining UNESCO in 2009, Dr. Lamin was Senior Lecturer in International Relations at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he taught courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His scholarly publications have appeared in peer reviewed academic and policy journals in Africa and globally, with several others as chapters in edited books. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Africa Elections, an interdisciplinary biannual publication of research and writing in the Human Sciences, based at the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa, which seeks to promote a scholarly understanding of development and change in Africa.

Educated in Sierra Leone and the United States of America, Lamin holds a PhD from the Department of African Studies and Research at Howard University in Washington D.C., MA in International Affairs from Ohio University in the USA and BA (Honors) in English Language and Literature from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.

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Peter Warutere

Peter Warutere, is a Development Economist who has specialized in Strategic Communications and Stakeholder Management throughout his professional career. He is an accomplished analyst on economic issues and contributes a weekly op-ed to the on emerging development issues. He also occasionally contributes regional news analysis to the East African. He runs his own consulting business through two firms, Mashariki Communications Limited and Mashariki Knowledge Academy Limited. He an adviser to the government and Jubilee party on strategic communications for high profile development issues. Also, he supports counties in capacity building for public participation to enhance their engagement with citizens and improve public service delivery. Before venturing into consulting, he worked for 16 years at the World Bank Group, where he was the Senior Communications Officer responsible for strategic communications programs in Kenya and other countries in the region including Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

He also worked on Eritrea and Seychelles. He is a graduate of Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands, from where he obtained a Master of Philosophy degree in Business Administration in June 2010. He o holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Social Studies specializing in Development Economics from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and a Bachelor’s degree in Education specializing in Business Studies and Economics from the University of Nairobi. He has participated in many professional development programs.

Huang Xueqing

Huang Xueqing is the First Secretary in the Embassy of China in Kenya. Huang Xueqing has Master’s degree in Political Economy from Tianjin Normal University and Bilingual Language Communication in Hongkong Baptist University. She started her diplomatic career in 2000. Between 2000 and 2005, she worked in Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later at the Embassy of China in South Africa up to 2007. From 2008 to 2013, she worked at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and at the Consulate General of China in Houston, USA between 2013 and 2018. Since July 2018 Huang Xueqing works at the Embassy of China in Kenya.

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Dr. Mwangi Wachira

Dr Mwangi Wachira a consultant in economic development, retired (2012) as Senior Economist from the World Bank where he worked on public sector programs in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean and South Asia. In his past he was a Director, Policy and Planning for what was (1989) the second largest international NGO in the US operating in 69 countries with an annual budget of $535 million, Catholic Relief Services. Dr. Wachira left Kenya in 1979 to become the Senior Program Officer in the Sudano-Sahelian office of United Nations Development Programme, Burkina Faso. His responsibilities included development programs in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali, Gambia, and Niger. Between 1974 and 1979, Dr. Wachira was a Policy Advisor, Undersecretary/Assistant to the President’s Advisor on Economic Affairs, Office of the President, Kenya. His career begun as Assistant Professor, Economic Development at Union College, New York, USA. He is a past recipient of National Honor, Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW) for contributing to policy formulation by submitting, pro bono, over 40 policy papers on a wide range of issues on economic development while working for the UN and the World Bank.

David Owiro

David Owiro is the Founder and Executive Director of The Africa Development Think Tank based in Nairobi, Kenya. David, is responsible for the growth and development of researches and projects across four thematic areas of economic growth and industrial strategy; international trade policy; domestic resource mobilization and budget advocacy; and social impact development and analysis. He has spent his professional life generating research evidence and advocating with policy makers on the different policy alternatives that would result in better quality livelihoods for our people across many sectors. This includes, reforming agricultural markets so that small scale farmers can enhance their incomes; examining potential of financial technology innovation on growing MSMEs; bringing together policy makers to dialogue on regional economic policy reform; working with small indigenous communities to protect their traditional knowledge for quality environmental management; and scaling school based mass deworming in the education and health sectors for enhanced learning outcomes and healthier children. He has also contributed to the development of public policy research and advocacy institutions with over ten years of experience spanning across national and international think tanks, and international development organizations in Africa, specializing in public policy advocacy, research and analysis, fundraising, institutionalization, capacity building, and management. David is a trained economist and statistician (Egerton University, Kenya), with post graduate studies in applied economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), applied statistics (Makerere University, Uganda), and monitoring and evaluation

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Anzetse Patricia Were

Anzetse Were is a development economist with over ten years of experience working in Africa on Economic Research, Analysis and Strategy Development; Impact Investment; Manufacturing; Sino-African Relations; the Informal Economy and Enterprise Development. She has a Masters in Economics from the University of Sydney (Australia) and a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University (USA). She is a weekly columnist for Business Daily Africa and her work can be accessed on her blog anzetsewere.wordpress.com. Her expertise in development economics has been sought out by local and international media houses such as The Financial Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC Africa, CGTN and Kenyan media houses. Her clients include the International Finance Corporation, the Overseas Development Institute, the African Development Bank, Deloitte, Barclays Bank and . She is an independent consultant and resides in Nairobi, Kenya.

Prof. George Oreku

George S. Oreku is an experienced information systems security research professor, consultant, and trainer. Oreku’s research interests include Information Security, Sensor Networks Security, related security issues in cybercrime cyber warfare and its integrations to R&D, critical Infrastructure, Cyber security, application to mobile computing and Mobile Banking, high performance e-commerce security, and development of culturally sensitive educational models, Curriculum Developer (EDUCATION), (South Africa, Ireland, Uganda, China, Finland and Tanzania). He has published over 80 scientific publications well acknowledged research articles, authored and co-authored more than seven books in security, wireless sensor networks security and ecommerce security. Currently he is an affiliated Professor with University of Eastern Finland, Research professor with North West University Vaal Campus South Africa, and Director of ICT and Technology Transfer at TIRDO under the Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment Tanzania. He also serves as a member group of data Vision Company in Tanzania, one of the ICT service provider company. He also serves as member of International Board of Advisory with African Institute of Policy Kenya (API), and Chairman Curriculum Validation of The National Council for Technical Education (NACTE) Tanzania.

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Dr. David Monyae

Dr David Monyae is Co-Director of the UJCI. An international relations and foreign policy expert, he holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Witwatersrand. He previously served as Section Manager: International Relations Policy Analysis at the South African Parliament, providing strategic management, parliamentary foreign policy formulation, and monitoring and analysis services. Prior to that he served as Policy Analyst at the Development Bank Southern Africa (DBSA), where he undertook extensive research on Regional Economic Communities (RECS) in Africa, with a special focus on infrastructure investment opportunities for the DBSA. He also designed and launched the DBSA’s Policy Briefs and Working Papers, and represented the Bank on major infrastructure projects in Africa. He also formed part of the South African academic delegations at meetings of the India, Brazil, and South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum in 2010 and the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) summits in Beijing in 2011, New Delhi in 2012, and Durban in 2013. For nine years prior to that he lectured on South African foreign policy and African international relations at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has published widely and is a respected political analyst, featuring in the national and international media.

Njoki Mboce

Njoki Mboce is a lawyer, consultant, academic and policy advisor. Her consultancy focuses mainly on law, maritime (blue economy), security, alternative dispute resolution, governance and strategic issues. She currently serves as: Senior Associate Fellow at the Africa Policy Institute; Research Associate with SAFESEAS, a pilot project that studies lessons from maritime security capacity building in the Western Indian Ocean; Implementing committee member of the Fish FORCE Academy model in Kenya, for purposes of combating maritime crime; Trial advocacy trainer with Justice Advocacy Africa and trains advocates in Botswana, Uganda and Kenya, with Justice Advocacy Africa and the respective law societies. She is a practising advocate of the High court of Kenya, and a partner at the firm of Njoki Mboce & Company advocates. She teaches at the University of Nairobi, where she is also currently pursuing her PhD and a former Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (New Delhi, India) on India-Kenya Maritime Security Co-operation, also a nominated Visiting Scholar at the Leiden Centre for Legal and Comparative Studies of the East African Community, Netherlands. She is a certified civil and commercial mediator and qualified arbitrator.

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Munetsi Madakufamba

Munetsi Madakufamba is the Executive Director of SARDC, a regional think tank that has a well-established research and knowledge resource centre on the SADC region. He is a renowned writer, researcher and expert on African development with a keen interest on issues of Regional Integration in the Southern African sub-region and on China Africa Relations. He has academic background in Development Economics and International Relations. He has written extensively on Regional Integration in SADC and on China Africa Relations. He is editor of the regional development news feature magazine, SADC Today. As an expert and thought leader, he has over the last two decades been an integral part of expert teams contributing to the strategic design and review of regional development policy in SADC. Most recently, he was a member of the SADC Task Force that reviewed the 15-year development blueprint, the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) and was one of the technical advisors on the development of the SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap (2015-2063). He has conceptualized, implemented and supervised various research initiatives on Southern Africa development policy including on the specific sectors of energy, infrastructure, trade and natural resources.

Dr. Yonas Adaye (PHD)

Yonas Adaye Adeto (PhD) is the Associate Academic Director and Regular MA coordinator at IPSS. He holds a BA and MA in English from Addis Ababa University; an MA and Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations and Security Studies and a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK. Yonas has spent more than 20 years teaching at Addis Ababa University, as well as served in different administrative posts at AAU and IPSS. From 1996 to 2000 he was the Sophomore English Coordinator at AAU. After joining IPSS in 2007, he worked in different administrative capacities including: Director (2007 – 2009); Deputy Director (2012 - 2014); Regular MA Programme Coordinator (since 2009) and Associate Academic Director (since 2014).

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Dr. Wilson Muna

Dr. Wilson Muna lectures at Kenyatta University. He holds a PhD and a Master’s Degree of Policy and Development Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He specializes in public policy analysis; international relations; peace and security; and public management. Dr. Muna has special interest in understanding the evolution of Sino-African relation and its relevance in African development and integration. Some of his publications include; • Challenges of relationships and social identities: The paradox of consequences of Kenya’s military intervention in Somalia (Book Chapter: The New African Civil and Military Relations: International African Studies’ Perspectives); • Deconstructing intergenerational politics between ‘Young Turks’ and ‘Old Guards’ in Africa: an exploration of the perceptions on leadership and governance in Kenya; by the Journal of Youth Studies; and • Monetary Clout and Electoral Politics in Kenya: The 1992 to 2013 Presidential Elections in Focus (Published by the Journal of African Elections, vol. 13, no 2).

Polycarp Omolo Ochilo

Polycarp J. Omolo Ochilo is an expert in research methodology, public administration, international relations, foreign policy analysis, political theory, analytical political philosophy and administrative theory. He holds Master of Arts (Political Science and Public Administration), University of Nairobi and Bachelor of Arts (Communication) from Mitchell University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a lecturer at the University of Nairobi School of Journalism in the following areas; Fundamentals of Broadcast Journalism; Fundamentals of Communication Theories; Communication Planning and Development; Contemporary Issues in Communication; Communication and Human Rights; and Communication Policy. He has authored numerous papers and publications and his other areas of experience include consultancy and research. In 2008, he was Awarded a Certificate of Service by the National Anti-Corruption Campaign Steering Committee.

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Dr. Kenneth Orengo

Dr. Kenneth Orengo is the Managing Director and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Africa Policy Institute, he is a qualified Veterinary Surgeon, a Master in Pharmacology and Toxicology and currently working on a Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Nairobi in Pharmacology and Toxicology. He has published two research papers in the African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (AJPP) and the International journal of Veterinary Sciences (IJVS). He has 10 years of establishment of private enterprises in value addition. Founder of a company that is pioneered outsourced ticketing services in Kenya (www.ticketskenya.com). He has served as President of the students’ organization of the University of Nairobi in the year 2004-2005 and as a National Treasurer of the New Ford Kenya Party (NFK) in 2008-2009. NFK is a National Political Party in Kenya and was a member of the ruling coalition in 2008-2013. He also served as a member of the Kenyan Delegation to the 2011 African Union assembly of member states, participating in a working committee on justice and human rights discussing the political situation in Kenya following the 2007 post-election crisis. He is Involved in research and analysis to inform policy formulation and policy implementation in the areas of security and governance. He is one of the founders of Timiza Foundation, a charity organization in Kenya with a mission of enabling the youth in Kenya take up opportunities in Business through the Access to Government Procurement program. This is done through education, paralegal services and advocacy in all parts of the country. He is interested in taking up political leadership in Kenya through recognition in academia, entrepreneurship and community mobilization. Establish a global network of leaders with like minds in order to share values, knowledge and capacity. Subsequently, using the political leadership and the global network to push for meaningful social and political reforms in Kenya.

Liu Hongjie

Liu Hongjie graduated from Beijing Language and Culture University with a bachelor’s degree in international politics and joined China Daily in July, 2009. He has been an international news reporter and editor both in English and Chinese for 9 years. He was assigned to China Daily Africa Bureau, which is stationed in Nairobi, by China Daily’s headquarters in January, 2016. He is responsible for news writing and photo shooting especially in the area of Sino-Africa political, business and social cooperation, as well as culture, art and people to people exchanges. He has covered some major news event that involves both China and African countries, such as Kenya’s president election, Chinese top political advisor, Mr. Wang Yang’s visit to Kenya, Chinese billionaire enterpriser Jack Ma’s first African trip, and Egypt’s new capital construction project. He also runs China Daily Africa homepage in Facebook.

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Emmanuel Zwanbin

Emmanuel Zwanbin is a doctorate student of International Relations at the United States International University-Africa, Nairobi. He holds a BA degree in History and MSc in Conflict Management and Peace Studies. He has put in over eight years lecturing in higher education institute. His research interest includes Belt and Road Initiative, Integrated Infrastructure, Regional Integration in African, Security and Environment.

Ying TANG

Ying Tang is Editor and Director of China Daily Africa, she has been working in China Daily since 1987 after graduating from the English Department of Wuhan University. In 1990, I attended the Chinese Journalists Training Seminar as a Parvin Fellow in East-West Center, University of Hawaii. I have worked in the Supplement Department of China Daily for almost 20 years. Her is to propose, organize and publish foreign affairs related special reports on occasions, such as the Chinese leaders visiting a foreign country or vice versa, international conference or exhibition, anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between China and a foreign country. These special reports help enhance the bilateral relations. My previous job before coming to Africa is an Associate Senior Editor of the Business Development Center of China Daily. My job is to review ads, making sure that the content is in conformity with the Advertisement Law, its English is fluent with no ambiguity and its artwork is creative and eye-catching.

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Ms. Liu Tongqiao

Ms. Liu Tongqiao is currently Attache in Chinese Embassy in Kenya. Before coming to Kenya, she worked in The Department of International Economic Affairs in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, and had several years of experience in Banking Industry.

Alex Litu

Alex is a Researcher and writer whose work has appeared in Business Daily Africa, and People Daily publications. His work can be accessed on his blog, litualex.wordpress.com. His expertise on the informal sector has been sought out by Barclays and Isuzu East Africa. He has an active interest and research activity in informality and what Africa can learn from China. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Kenyatta University. He has experience in both formal and informal business markets. He is an independent consultant and resides in Nairobi, Kenya.

Naftali Mwangi

Naftali Mwaura is a journalist working for the Xinhua News Agency in the last eight years and his areas of specialization includes, environment, health, agriculture, development, regional affairs, security and geopolitics. He has published widely in Xinhua News Agency and its related platforms and his stories usually resonate with a global audience. He is currently writing extensively on China-Africa affairs.

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