"The China-Africa friendship that we enjoy today is the result of concerted efforts of people of several generations from both sides. The future of this friendship will be in the hands of our young people. People of the younger generation embody not only the hope of greater development of China and Africa, but also the promise of even stronger friendship between the two sides in the future."

--President Hu Jintao of the People's Republic of China

Speakers

Here is a list of confirmed speakers who will present at YFOCAR:

Adams Bodomo
Professor of Linguistics, Coordinater, African Studies Programme, School of Humanities, The University of Hong Kong
The African Diaspora in China: Symmetry and Soft Power in Africa-China Relations
Jeremy Carl
PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Environment, Energy and Oil--Africa and Energy Development in China
Wenran Jiang
Associate Professor of Political Science & Mactaggart Research Chair of the China Institute, University of Alberta
Energy Development in China and the Emergence of China as a Global Superpower
Ato Onoma
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Economic Development in Africa: Movement of People, Goods and Ideas and the Development of Socio-Political Stability
Aleksandra Gadzala
M.Phil, Oxford University,
The impact of Chinese investment and penetration on informal sector activities in parts of Africa, with focus on Uganda, Zambia and Kenya, setting the recent Chinese move towards Africa in context of broader Chinese migration and commerce
Dunia Zongwe
Graduate Student, Cornell University Law School
Contractual legal framework for the optimization of China’s investments in the mining sectors of sub-Saharan Africa

Codrin Arsene
Researcher and Scholar, Political Science Department, University of Chicago
The Most Unequal Equals: Historical and Present Trends of the Sino-Tanzanian Friendship
Jingjing Zhang
Yale University
Director of Litigation, Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims

Mohammad Yunus Rafiq
Yale University, Co-founder of Aang Serian Peace Village
Hip-Hop in Africa; Bongoflava, Youth agency and Cultural Production in Tanzania

Jason Chu
Yale University,
Sino-African Parallels, Chinese Hip-Hop

Dr. Stephanie Rupp
Associate, Program on Intrastate Conflict/International Security Program
Human Rights

Sinéad Hunt
Yale University Graduate Student
Human Rights

Chansonetta Cummings
Yale University: Masters Candidate, International Relations
Human Rights

Ruta Ninkar
Yale University: Masters Candidate, International Relations
Human Rights

Jason Warner
Yale University: Masters Candidate in African Studies
Human Rights