By John Njenga Karugia
We were privileged to host four international fellows this past Summer Semester. During their stint in Berlin, we held a Silk Roads Roundtable session where we discussed various research approaches to study the Belt and Road Initiative and updated each other on our various research projects.
The fellows – seen in the above picture – were Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo (University of Vienna, Austria), Prof. Dr. Zaman Muhammad and Hifza Irfan (both Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan) and Dr. Ibrahima Niang (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal). They shared perspectives from their current research in Senegal, Pakistan, Ghana and China.
Some of the fellows also give lectures as part of our series of Silk Roads Talks. On 28 September 2023, Hifza Irfan used her research stay to introduce us to her doctoral dissertation ‘Smart Technologies, Road Safety and Reflexive Motorization in Pakistan’. For the next talk, on 25 October, Ibrahima Niang presented ‘The Digital Silk Roads in Africa: How the Chinese Huawei Group is Rewriting the Future of Technologies in Senegal‘.
All images © John Njenga Karugia