Is China Killing Africa?
Is
there an African country that has an idea on how to ‘deal’ with China? Well,
that is if there is need to ‘deal’ with China in Africa anyway. At least, there
seems to be consensus that China and/or Chinese in Africa are engaged in the
kind of business (illicit or otherwise) that basically kill the formative and
fledgling industrialization in many parts of Africa. China is helping African
governments to kill emerging industries. African markets are flooded with
"cheap" Chinese everything. Why
would anyone bother manufacturing anything on the continent if and when the
market is so hostile in the sense that whatever you will produce will end up
being expensive compared to the readily available Chinese version of the same
product? And, then forget manufacturing. In fact, people are no longer even
taking the trouble to fish. Why go catching fish when you can actually get
cheap Chinese fish next door? I do not mean to say China is a problem in
Africa, have I?
Talking
about China, I recall something. When debating used to fun, I and a friend
whose interest was China in Africa used to lazily talk about how China was
slowly - but surely so - colonizing Africa. I have never heard from him ever
since he got this prestigious scholarship and went for further studies in
China. It reminds me of the US and Fulbright scholarships. History is a ghost;
it always returns. The more modest way they say it, is that ‘history repeats
itself.’
Is China Killing Africa?
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
on
March 14, 2019
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