Abdurahim Ssemanda, Author at Development Watch Centre

From UN Vetoes to Shared Futures: Why the US-Israel-Iran Conflict Is Reviving Calls for China’s GSI

It is worthwhile to reach a consensus with Wang Dingjun, the Chinese writer and critic when he argued that literature never dies. This agreement can be arrived at by reading a 2011 publication, The Throne of Fire, by an American author, Richard Russell Riordan Jr. In this book, during a moment of crisis and reflection, a character known as Carter Kane speaks to his sister Sadie, “Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.” And, yes, drawing from the……

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Apr 22, 2026 • 7 min read

Diplomacy

Global South Partnership: China-Africa Cooperation is Good for Global Diplomacy

The Global South Media and Think Tank Forum China-Africa Partnership Conference which was held in South Africa-Johannesburg on November 13, 2025, was a perfect step made at a perfect time. For some bold reasons as elaborated below, I will confidently say that this is yet another great step of China-Africa partnership whose results must help a […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Nov 24, 2025 • 6 min read

Foreign Policy Analysis

Trump’s Tariffs Have Nothing to Do With a Fair World; It’s A Boomerang Trick to Contain China

The United States President, Donald Trump’s relentless habit of slapping tariffs on other countries has created what I can without doubt call “the politics of beam balance”—with Trump’s tariff situation on one hand and China’s President, Xi Jinping’s inclusivity on the other. In other words, Trump’s tariff situation lands us in a more direct situation […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Apr 23, 2025 • 7 min read

Diplomacy

Why does history judge China as “a man more sinned against than sinning?”

Dear Edtor, Reading from De Oratore book II chapter 9, the great Roman statesman and philosopher, Marcus Tullius Cicero discusses the importance of history in the education of an orator. Therein, Cicero regards history as “witness of the past, the light of truth, and the life of memory.” Following history therefore, and reading from an African’s […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Feb 11, 2025 • 6 min read

Foreign Policy Analysis

Speak and Place: Where Does President Xi Jinping’s Speech at the 2024 FOCAC Summit Put Africa?

In his book, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, Abraham Joshua Heschel remarks that “Words Create Worlds.” By far to moralists, this is not a fallacy. When we speak, we create, and in our creations, we place or put something new somewhere in a place. As a result, it is indisputable that President Xi Jinping’s speech […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Sep 17, 2024 • 6 min read

China-Uganda

Karuma Hydropower Project Shows China’s Contributions in Africa Thrive on Matthew’s Gospel

“So, when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honoured by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But when you give to the poor, do not let your left […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Sep 7, 2023 • 7 min read

Development Assistance

As Ugandans noted, China’s Cooperation with Africa is a Win-win Cooperation

Dear Editor, on Thursday 27th July 2023 Sino-Uganda Research Centre, a Ugandan Think Tank dedicated to analysis of Uganda’s foreign policy and diplomacy in international milieux with focus on China-Uganda relations left me deeply thinking much about China-Uganda cooperation. The symposium which ran under the theme “A New Era of China-Africa Relations: What is in […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Aug 16, 2023 • 6 min read

Development Assistance

China’s Cooperation with Africa is a Win-win Cooperation

Dear Editor, on Thursday 27th July 2023 Sino-Uganda Research Centre, a Ugandan Think Tank dedicated to analysis of Uganda’s foreign policy and diplomacy in international milieux with focus on China-Uganda relations left me deeply thinking much about China-Uganda cooperation. The symposium which ran under the theme “A New Era of China-Africa Relations: What is in […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Jul 30, 2023 • 6 min read

Development Assistance

China-Africa Relations Bridging the Gap in African Countries’ Struggle for Educational Transformation

Over the years, the government of the People’s Republic of China has proved to be Africa’s reliable development partner through supporting African countries strategic sectors. One of many key areas to note which China has greatly and religiously supported is human capacity building – a sector that is very instrumental in development of any nation. […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Feb 4, 2023 • 7 min read

Development Assistance

China-Uganda Relations Cooperation: A Michael Jordan Philosophy – we all win

Talking of China-Uganda diplomatic relations which were established way back in 1962, and now almost 63 years, you can practically realise that they have been strongly operating on a Michael Jordan principle. The ranked “greatest basketball player of all time” who played for fifteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships […]

Abdurahim Ssemanda • Jan 17, 2023 • 5 min read