Chinese Investment in Nigeria: Dining with the Tigers
At The Maroonsquare Discourse on National Development held on the 28th and 29th of March, 2019 held at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Osaze Nosaze discusses the complexity of Chinese investment in Nigeria. Below is an excerpt of the paper delivered.
China represents its relationship with Africa as benevolent and rejects charges that it is neo-imperialist or, at least, proto-imperialist. Rather, it contrasts that relationship with the imperialist one of the West with the continent. Thus, for instance, Liu Guijin — former Chinese ambassador to South Africa — cited the visit by Zhen He, a 15th-century Chinese admiral and mariner, to the continent 600 years ago in evidence of the non-colonial c...
