This seminar traces the arc of China–Africa relationsfrom their symbolic beginnings at the 1955 Bandung Conference—where Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai joined leaders from newly independent Asian and African nations to champion anti-colonialism and solidarity—tothe 21st century’s Belt and Road Initiative and beyond. We will explore how the ideals of Afro-Asian unity evolved into contemporary development partnerships, the “Beijing Consensus,” the 2024 China–Africa Changsha Declaration on Upholding Solidarity and Cooperation of the Global South, and patterns of migration both from China to the African continent and from the African continent to China.