An Anthropological Understanding of Chinese-financed Special Economic Zones in Nigeria with Omolade Adunbi

Professor Omolade Adunbi joins Juliet and Erik on the podcast to talk about China's free trade zones in Nigeria. Adunbi is the Director of the African Studies Center, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of Law, and Faculty Associate in the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan. His research explores issues related to governance, infrastructures of extraction, environmental politics and rights, power, violence, culture, transnational institutions, multinational corporations, and the postcolonial state.


Recommendations:

Omolade:

• Music of Fela Kuti
• Power, Knowledge, Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and its Governance in Africa by Laura German (2022)

Erik:

• Episode of the Sinica Podcast: Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on the morality of U.S. China policy
• Laufey's music, specifically her new album Bewitched

Juliet:

• Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China's Clean Energy Sector by Joanna Lewis (2023)