The nation of diaspora: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi, part 2
NüVoices
English - July 31, 2020 20:02 - 1 hour - 41.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsSociety & Culture china taiwan hong kong greater china journalism feminism foreign correspondents Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and China-Kenya relations. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talks to April about:
How Nairobi is a city with a plotWhy covering women's issues helps us understand power"Ecosystems" of violence in Nairobi's informal settlementsWhy the opposite of Sinophobia is not Sinophilia, but nuanceWhat is missing in "China-Africa" discourse
Resources:
A lost ‘Little Africa’: How China, too, blames foreigners for the virus, Sinophobia spreads faster than the coronavirus, and A death penalty for the poor, by April Zhu.
Recommendations:
April: The Dragonfly Sea, by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor.
Cindy: The TV series What We Do in the Shadows, available on Hulu.
This podcast was edited and produced by Jason MacRonald.
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