China Builds Schools in Tanzania as Sino-Africa Ties Deepen

Xinhua ^ | February 4, 2016

[PapaBear3625]

"In 100 years there may be more Chinese than Africans in Africa."

Given the current birthrates of the continent vs. the PRC, that seems highly unlikely.

Current African birthrates are only sustainable as long as either Africans are productive enough to be able to pay for their own food, or foreign entities are charitable enough to subsidize their poverty.

[antidisestablishment]

I had a professor from West Africa who was very well-educated and very conservative. He came into class one day very pissed off. He had watched a (probably PBS) documentary about coconut plantations that presented the same child-labor argument. He explained very graphically to the class how those ‘evil plantations’ gave him his only opportunity to get an education. Legal immigrants can often shame most Americans with their understanding of history and economics.

[tbw2]

A major difference - the Chinese have been seen in many cases bringing in their own people as laborers, while colonialists readily relied on local labor.
These schools are just PR and an effort to train a few local intermediaries.

[M1903A1]

Links between Tanzania and China go back to the 1960s, the days of Julius Nyerere and the anti-colonial wars in places like Rhodesia and Mozambique. Tanzania was the arrival point of lots of Chinese arms for the “liberation movements”, just as Guinea-Conakry was the entrance point for Communist weapons bound for West African guerillas.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[piasa]

Thanks for that info...