Posted on 06/21/2018 5:20:39 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Even though Africa is much underestimated, the continent’s rich mineral resources always attract both developing and developed countries. China is now actively engaged in Africa.
Nearly 600 years ago, the first Chinese reached Africa during the Ming dynasty, a period of cultural restoration and expansion, on the coast of Kenya. The next significant arrival was in the early 1900's when about 60,000 Chinese miners worked on goldfields in South Africa.
Later, Chairman Mao Zedong sent tens of thousands of agricultural and construction workers to Africa to enhance ties with countries emerging from colonialism.
Trade between China and Africa reached a new high last year, totaling US$198.5 billion. It is estimated that about 1 million Chinese people are engaged in different sectors in Africa.
The strong presence of Chinese in Africa have sparked controversy, as America and Europe continue to accuse them of flooding the market with inferior or cheap quality products. Due to the rate of poverty, Africans rely on affordable products.
It seems they have found solution and satisfaction in Chinese products. To build a good relationship with African leaders China continues to support and giving a loan to Africa to enhance its developments.
(Excerpt) Read more at modernghana.com ...
I hear the ebola is nice this time of year.
Thought you were finished with slavery did you?
China will certainly not be importing Africans.
However, have no doubt, they will extract the maximum of that continent’s resources, and, more importantly, use it as another base to challenge the West, specifically the U.S.
Or the German genocide of natives in what is now Namibia
The British weren't terrible, though they did set up the world's first concentration camps (against Boers)
The French still keep their proxy colonies in West Africa
No, don't kid yourself, the European colonizers were, in general bad in sub-Saharan Africa.
Note however that the sub-saharan africans DID invent the wheel on their own before Christ but it was used primarily as the potters wheel - and why?
Because they did not have any draught animals (the same reason meso-America did not develop the wheel). The cow came to East Africa through the Arabs who also brought the wheel. But without draught animals, inventing a wheel would be longer
And there have been a few (too few) bright lights - in Botswana and Senegal and to some extent Kenya
Inside the growing backlash against China, 2007 article about the same
Check out usaid.gov.
The amounts are staggering.
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