Contingent infrastructure and the dilution of ‘Chineseness’: Reframing roads and rail in Kampala and Addis Ababa

• Published in: Environment and planning. A Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 655 - 674
• Main Authors: Goodfellow, Tom, Huang, Zhengli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2021
• Subjects: urban transportation; Infrastructure; Uganda; Ethiopia; China-Africa relations

Amid growing interest in China’s role in financing and building infrastructure in Africa, there is still little research on how Chinese-financed infrastructures are negotiated and realised at the city and metropolitan scale. We compare the Light Rail Transit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the express...