Assistant Professor at Ashesi, Dr. Lloyd Amoah, has been selected for the first ever Visiting Programme for Young Sinologists. The 2014 programme, initiated by the Ministry of Culture of China and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, offers opportunities for a highly selective group of accomplished young scholars and promoters of Chinese studies around the world to visit China and forge research partnerships. Dr. Amoah is Africa's only representative in the programme.
The programme aims to provide the selected scholarswith first-hand experience and the required support to further deepen and enrich their studies about China and Chinese culture.
“I thank the Chinese government for the opportunity and resources to continue to interpret China for Africa, Ashesi for the financial and institutional support and the scholars who nominated me for the programme,” Dr. Amoah said. “I am also grateful to Ghana and her people for nurturing my mind!”
Dr. Amoah’s research area will be on “Contemporary China and the world”, including the development policy of China in the modern era and studies on the impact of China’s soft power, among other things. Lloyd’s research has focused mainly on public policy formation and development in developing societies, Africa-China relations, Africa-Asia relations and public administration and philosophy.
He has also published on Africa-China relations in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) Focus on Africa magazine, Jeune Afrique’s The Africa Report, Third World Network’s African Agenda magazine and other local and international publications. Lloyd’s latest book (2014) analyses the emergence and impact(s) of the knowledge society/economy on contemporary Africa’s socio-economic development.