dominickbrady:

There is a certain, but small, nationalistic part of me that has been sickened over the past 5 years or so of Chinese investment in Africa.  Africa is still working out issues brought on by it’s colonial past- nearly the entire continent is embroiled in uncertainty.

It seems like the continent would be better served given space to find itself.  Trading one patriarchal benefactor for another will place a band-aid over the sopping, festering wounds that Europe left.   Give them time.  Without local control of resources, do people think that stability will EVER be possible in the third world?

Feel you on this man.  I don’t trust China over there one bit.  In some cases they’ll move an operation in and won’t hire any local people.  So you’ll have a chinese factory filled with chinese workers making money off African land.  How does this help the indigenous people?  There’s a word for that and it’s not investment