ROUNDTABLE < Is 'debt trap diplomacy’ China's neocolonialist tool in Africa? >
China’s a leading investor in the African continent, Beijing aims to reap more and more benefits from the mineral-rich continent but the fast changing reality on the ground may throw up major hurdles.
China takes raw materials from Africa, converts them into finished goods in China, and then sells them in African markets.
For a long time Western states and nonstate actors were held responsible for the spread of neo-colonial activities in Africa. What many people on the continent perhaps did not imagine was the rise of China as a power centre with policies that remind many of British colonialism in Africa.
