Africa is 50 countries, and they have very different systems of governments. There are high points and low points across the continent when it comes to good engagement with china. The overseer should have used somesive, kind of the same chinese communications that were present in africa which might have been more efficient. But he's on some sort of system instead that hasn't worked that way. So i think we need, really need to be careful if we're going to build stability on the continent. We need to pay more attention to taking the majority of our people. Only then will what we create be sustainable.
Between 2007 and 2020, China invested $23 billion into infrastructure for nations across Africa, $8 billion more than the other top eight lenders combined. But in its pursuit of energy security and raw materials the Chinese government and Chinese companies have locked resource-rich African states into loans and contracts which could start to squeeze them hard in ten or so years’ time. Is Chinese investment good for Africa? Joining us to debate the question is Dr Nkosana Moyo, former Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the African Development Bank and former Minister of Industry and International Trade for Zimbabwe. We also are joined by Stephen Chan OBE, Professor of World Politics at SOAS University of London. Hosting the discussion is the historian, author and broadcaster, Rana Mitter.
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