Leaving Africa to its own devices has been a failure all around. Being taken over by China will be just the last item in a long list of failures.
Amen. As long as tribalism rules, neither the Africans nor the Chinese nor anyone else will get anywhere.
Indians are another group that end up owning stores and being the backbone of the middle class. That lasts until the latest El Supremo confiscates all the goods and runs them out of the country like Idi Amin did to them in Uganda in the '70s.
If the Chinese get screwed like this they might come in and kick butt with impunity, for the world only complains when whites are involved. However, the end result will be the same - the Chinese say "To Hell with it" and go home while the locals relapse back to their previous poverty and yell for Western aid.