By David Ohito
NAIROBI, KENYA: A new book examining China-Africa relations has been published and explores how its rising interest in Africa is on the surge compared to former colonial powers. The book titled China-Africa Partnership, a quest for win-win relationship is an update of how China is aggressively engaging in the fields of trade, development, peace and security and even cultural exchanges.
The scholars and policy analysts grapple with how China is disrupting the market place and signing major contracts sidelining major western powers who have profiteered from slavery, conquests, colonization and exploitation through neo-colonialism.
Edited by James Shikwati, the book examines how the continent has been undergoing modernisation; which is the euphemism of Europeanization since the General Act of Berlin Conference of 1885.
Argues Shikwati: “The modernisation experiment has put the African continent on the development path but left the African people stuck in subsistence unable to utilise the vast wealth in natural resources to improve their living standards.” Authors argue that Africans view China’s renewed interest and rapid surge in its influence in Africa with both admiration and fear.
