Confucius Institutes a win-win proposition

According to the Chinese Language Council (Hanban), there are some 54 Confucius Institutes in Africa - the same number as there are countries in the Africa. Most of the Confucius Institutes are based in universities or colleges.

There is a smaller number of Confucius Classrooms on the continent according to Hanban - just 27 in total. These classrooms mostly operate at the secondary school level but also in a variety of other language promotion institutions. In 2015, at the fourth annual conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Johannesburg, South Africa, the agreed Framework for Action underlined that, "The Chinese side... will support more African countries in their efforts to establish Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms."

What can be said about the spread of Confucius Institutes in Africa since the first one was opened in the University of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2005? And what can be concluded on the patterns of spread in Africa of these two institutions, the Confucius Institutes and the Confucius Classrooms, as compared with their increase in North America, Europe, Asia and the Oceania?