More like partners. Africa need capital - infrastructure, etc. Africa has abundance of land and natural resource. china want it. Europe and developed world no longer really need that much of it. China are coming in partners - they get raw materials to their citizens to transitioned into developed world - and they fix the railways and roads.
Just like European colonial power fixed African infrastructure 120yrs ago...maybe built 30,000kms of railways in Africa...or more..not for us..but for themselves.
The same with China now...they are building our rails and roads as WIN-WIN - we use it domestically - they also use it to ship raw materials.
US/Europe has nothing to offer us except LONG LECTURES INCLUDING ABOUT LGBT. Obama lost Africa when the idiot pushed for it - that least of our problem...talk extreme povery.
China will give us the same huge push European did (for their own interest) during colonial period..
And hopefully this time round we can take full advantage of ....
Good thing China don't have that history of using force to get what they want....so they probably won't sponsor wars and coups...to get what they want.
Great thing...we are just poor but not longer ignorant. We have gone to schools. We maybe corrupt but we generally know what we want..so Chinese are not going to overrrun Africa.
If Africa is expecting its salvation to come from China, then Africa is doomed.
Nobody has ever been helped to salvation on this earth. It is your own initiative that counts. Believing the Chinese will be better colonial masters than the West was is a dilusion. Colonial masters are always masters and a master has to have a servant. So if the Chinese are the masters guess who will be the servant?
Africa has to look for its own solutions away from the Wet vs China circus.We are on our own if we want to develop our countries.
Kadame: it is projected China will be the global superpower with 2X or 3X the US economy in the mid 21st century. Do you see this as a possible salvation for Africa from penury? This I pick from your disdain for the West. Do you expect the Chinese will be better masters of the world?
