Sanusha Naidu is an author, academic and research specialist in the Integrated Rural and Regional Development research programme at the South African Regional Poverty Network. After completing a BA Law degree and an honours degree in political science at the
University of Durban-Westville
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, she obtained an MA in International Relations from
Staffordshire University
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History
In 1901, industrialist Alfred ...
,
England
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.
She specialises in the mapping of South African corporate trade relations in Southern Africa, implications of free trade arrangements on poverty-reduction strategies, democratic change and consolidation in Africa: public-policy choices and behaviour of actors and the implication of SA's multilateral approach to international relations in the 21st century: the case of reforming multilateral institutions.
Prior to joining the
HSRC, Sanusha was Senior Africa researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs. She also has lectured in the department of political science of the University of Durban-Westville.
She is the research director of the
China
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in
Africa
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project with
Fahamu in
South Africa
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. Naidu was a research fellow at the Centre for Chinese Studies,
Stellenbosch University
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, and research specialist in the Democracy and Governance research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa
Books
*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?: Africa and China (Editor) with Kweku Ampiah, 2008
*China in Africa, with Ian Taylor, Margaret C. Lee and Henning Melber, 2007
*China in Africa: Chinese and African perspectives (Editor) with Axel Harneit-Sievers and Stephen Marks, 2009
Articles
India’s African Relations: Playing Catch up with the DragonChinese investment: Good for Africa?
References
*http://www.sarpn.org.za/staff/staffSN.php
*http://www.fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100804370&fa=author&Person_ID=152
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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