ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows how the UK’s Department for International Development pushed the international group of researchers investigating Chinese business migrants in West Africa to consider the value of ‘the China model’ for ‘Africa’. It argues that particularly “state-led South–South discourses have only casually and sparingly had recourse to feminist perspectives or raised questions of gender equity”. The book examines the way in which research on Brazil’s role in South–South Development Cooperation in various African countries was shaped by consecutive Brazilian administrations under Lula, Rousseff, Temer and Bolsonaro. It explores how the Africa-China Reporting Project aims to do exactly that by, for example, investigating whether China is dumping e-waste in Lagos, how Ugandan criminals steal from Chinese investors, and other important investigative projects.
