Seminar Notice

Dialogue over Chinese Media’s Engagementin Africa

Africa Communication Research Centre,Communication University of China(CUC)

主持人：非洲研究中心主任张艳秋教授

时间：2014年 5月30日（周五）下午3:00-5:00

地点：42号楼一层会议室

Chair: Prof. Zhang Yanqiu, Director ofAfrica Communication Research Centre

Date:30^th May, 2014

Time:3:00p.m.-5:00p.m.

Venue:Meeting Room, 1^st floor, No.42 Bldg, Institute of CommunicationStudies, CUC

Speakers: 

Li Lianxing

Chief Africa Correspondent of ChinaDaily,stationed in Nairobi, Kenya(2012-present)

·           Composedinvestigative and in-depth coverage engaging more than 20 African countries,writingwide-ranging cover stories on China’s involvement in Africa, includingpoaching, forestry,technology, integration, infrastructure, education, health,social responsibility and agriculture.

·           Conducted exclusiveaudio and video interviews with state leaders, ambassadors, ministersandinternationally influential figures, including Tony Blair, Uhuru Kenyatta,Macky Salle, Helen Clark,Valerie Amos, Erastus Mwencha, and Ali Babacan.

·           International NewsReporter (stationed in Beijing, China), China Daily(2010-2012).

·           MPhil inInternational Relations, University of Cambridge(2009-2010).

·           MSc in AfricanStudies, University of Oxford(2008-2009).

·           BA in HausaLanguage and Culture, Beijing Foreign Studies University (2004-2008).

Bob Wekesa

PhD candidatein communications, CommunicationUniversity of China, former Editorial Director, Kenya Today Newspaper

·           Interview ofEastern Africa leaders including President Paul Kagame of Rwanda,  President Ahmed Omar el Bashir of Republic ofSudan and former Somalia President Ahmed Sheikh Sharif Sheikh

·           Interview ofcorporate leaders in Eastern Africa including Eastern Africa Business Councilofficials, to leaders of  East AfricanCommunity Ambassador and Africa Union Commission, among others

·           Featuredocumentaries of untold stories in rural Kenya for Reuters’ Africa Journalleading to corrective action

·           Founded (withcolleagues), the Kenya Journalists Associations (KEJA)

·           As founding editorof Diplomat East Africa, created the first diplomacy and internationalrelations publication in Eastern Africa (Diplomat Southern Africa and DiplomatWest Africa followed suit)