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:30th May, 2014
Time:3:00p.m.-5:00p.m.
Venue:Meeting Room, 1st 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)
