At the heart of this campaign is a simple but powerful truth: Africa is massive – covering 30.37 million square kilometers, enough to accommodate the United States, China, India, and most of ...

Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make decisions based on national interests.

Likewise in East Africa, where Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have been working to revive the old East African Community, which collapsed in the mid-1970s because of political and ideological differences.