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CPD Research Fellow Shearon Roberts shares the diplomatic framework of Black U.S. political actors as the architects of global racial justice.
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Professor at University of Porto Jorge Marinho and his students in the applied languages in business relations program examine the Chinese government's social media use in Africa in the context of Belt & Road.
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Bob Wekesa of the African Centre for the Study of the United States argues that COVID-19 has produced an unprecedented uptick in African digital diplomacy.
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How China’s privately-owned pay television company StarTimes has developed relationships throughout Africa.
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CPD Faculty Fellow Jan Melissen and Michèle Bos of Leiden University's Institute of Security and Global Affairs share insight on public diplomacy efforts in the Sahel region of Africa.
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Bond University student Andie-Lee Cilliers takes a look at the role of rugby in South Africa's sports diplomacy history.