Nwachukwu Egbunike, Global Voices’ Co-Regional Editor (formerly Community Manager) for Sub-Saharan Africa, was recently an invited guest on The China in Africa Podcast to discuss the role that China is playing in Africa with regards to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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He recently wrote a two-part series of posts that discuss Chinese “soft-power vaccine diplomacy” as part of the ongoing Belt and Road Initiative Civic Media Observatory project.

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• COVID-19 vaccine in Africa – Caught between China’s soft-power diplomacy and the West’s vaccine nationalism – Part 1
• COVID-19 vaccine in Africa – Caught between China’s soft-power diplomacy and the West’s vaccine nationalism – Part 2.