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Dr Jing Jing Liu Bio: Dr. Jing Jing Liu is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada. Her research examines Africa-China engagements through the everyday lives of Nigerian and Chinese traders in China and Nigeria.
As global powers debate alternatives to the dollar, Nigerian traders, Chinese exporters, and everyday crypto users are already reshaping the rules of currency exchange, as the hosts of the Nigerian Scam find out in the latest episode of the AIAC podcast.
In Northern Cyprus, African students, many of them Nigerian, study diligently for tertiary degrees while juggling multiple income streams in a peer-to-peer system for collective survival.
Discriminatory COVID policies, increasing cost of living, and diminished purchasing power in China have pushed some Africans to return home, but others are not leaving just yet.