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How China’s Communist Party is building political schools, and influence, in Africa
- Beijing’s ruling party is also said to have stepped up training of officials on the continent in push to promote its development model and ideology
The Chinese Communist Party provided US$40 million to build the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School in Kibaha, Tanzania, which opened in 2022. Photo: Handout
Kenya’s ruling United Democratic Alliance is the latest African political party to benefit from China’s soft power push to promote its development model and ideology on the continent.
UDA officials visiting China in May clinched a deal with the Communist Party to build a leadership school for the Kenyan party in Nairobi. Chinese officials had previously held talks about setting up the school when they visited Kenya in March.
