It has become very fashionable lately, especially among Western print media to rail against China’s forays into Africa. China, among other things has been accused of a new form of colonization.
In 2010, a senior US official, Johnnie Carson, addressing an audience in Lagos, described China as ” a very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no morals”.
Since the media are essentially mouth pieces for their respective governments, it seems a case of a jealous lover castigating and casting aspersions on a rival. What is troubling though, is prominent African leaders especially those we admire and whose opinion we value greatly, Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa for his work and sacrifices during Apartheid and Lamido Sanusi the Governor of The Central Bank of Nigeria for his work in sanitizing the banking sector in Nigeria among others singing the chorus without substantiating what it is that China has done that smacks of re-colonization.
When one is raising an alarm, it never sits well in the absence of a cause. Chima Iheke: Has the West fortified the moral right to plead Africa’s cause? - DailyPost Nigeria - DailyPost Nigeria:
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