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Is China a better friend for Africa?

Can China, the world’s second-largest economy, deliver Kenya to the promised civilisation that European powers failed to deliver upon colonisation?

Can China possibly be the Holy Grail that African countries have direly searched for in their quest for social, economic and political development or will it turn out to be yet another colonial master?

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