Andrea is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Kifyasi specialises in medical history and is interested in China’s medical aid to post-colonial African countries and medical diplomacy. He earned his PhD at the Department of History, University of Basel, in 2021. His latest journal article examined the effectiveness of exchanges of medical knowledge across the Global South using case studies of the Chinese-funded medical projects in Tanzania from 1968 to the 1990s.

Neither “Saviour” nor “Exploiter”: A Historical Study of China’s Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania

At global dis:onnect, Andrea is studying the history of China’s medical assistance in post-colonial Tanzania, particularly the implications of Chinese medical aid in the development of Tanzania’s health sector under the discourse of South-South cooperation. He’s exploring how China’s medical assistance reflected the Southern agenda of promoting self-reliance and lessening Northern dominance in medical aid and knowledge in the South. The ensuring book will touch on South-South cooperation as well as economic, political and knowledge entanglements in bilateral relationships among countries of the Global South.