Strategic Challenges of China-Africa New Partnership
Abstract
China's interests in Africa have leaped from the export of culture and ideology of the Maoist era to an aggressive diplomatic and economic multilateralism. Energy resource remains a growing imperative to modern economies. Africa is of huge strategic significance to China. Yet the African continent is steeped in poverty, disease and conflict. African growth is still hampered by consumptive cultures and overly weak political economies that push most African nations to the periphery of globalization. Arguably, Africa's relationship with Western nations did not yield genuine development. Africa is still poor despite some Western debt reprieve. Western democracies still acquiesce to dictatorships whose policies supported Western interests. In this project, I would answer the following questions: What would Africa expect from China whose rapidly growing economy is powered by free enterprise, albeit with no perceptible zeal towards western style democracy? How does China's new foray support Africa's desire to be de-linked from ignorance, poverty and instability? And most importantly, what must Africa do to take advantage of this new opportunity? The project would offer that the optimism that greets this new initiative must be sustained by good governance on the part of African nations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 30, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA469655
Entities
People
- Solomon Giwa-amu
Organizations
- United States Army War College