Does China adopt an affable and respectable stance towards its partners, promoting friendship and win-win cooperation with commercial and trade diplomacy? Does China’s respect for Africa’s sovereignty and non-interference in its internal affairs, a factor in its strategic financing partnership with Africa, that is most significant.
Fifty of Africa’s 55 leaders attended the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping presented a development framework built around eight initiatives: Industrial promotion, infrastructure connectivity, trade facilitation, green development, capacity building, healthcare, people-to-people exchanges, and peace and security. He also announced $60 billion financing for Africa. Aid would peak $5 billion a year.
China also pledged to support Africa in achieving food security by 2030, expand exchanges and cooperation in addressing climate change and create a joint peace and security fund. And there was, of course, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — the most ambitious global infrastructure project in history that involves 76 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe. Beijing suggested, quite reasonably, to formally link BRI with Africa’s continental infrastructure vision.
Scapegoating is failure in defense and in political and economic strategy. It is one easy refuge for cowards and incompetent political leaders. For the accident-prone, incompetent potentates, the bigger the sin, the bigger the goat to be skinned in atonement. When a father bed-wets and blames the son beside him; when a leader daily generates horrid dirt’s uncensored, defecates at the backyard of his opponents and invites sanitary inspectors to arrest the innocent, then know that evil has triumphed. How soon will, Africa will become wise.
Africa Confidential has warned that not only Zambia but other African countries risks losing its sovereignty to China, as the Chinese prepare to seize national assets once governments defaults on loans. Zambia and Sri Lanka are typical examples of losing its sovereignty to the Chinese.
In a report titled ‘Bonds, bills and ever bigger debts’ published on September 3, Africa Confidential observed that ZNBC was already being run by the Chinese and disclosed that Zesco was also already in talks about a takeover by a Chinese company.
A major worry of the IMF and US is that China’s BRI strategy is first to encourage indebtedness, and then to take over strategic national assets when debtors default on repayments. The state electricity company Zesco is already in talks about a takeover by a Chinese company, Africa Confidential has learned. “The state-owned TV and radio news channel ZNBC are already Chinese-owned. The long-term outcome could be effective Chinese ownership of the commanding heights of the economy and potentially the biggest loss of national sovereignty since independence,” the report read.
Africa Confidential noted that Zambians would be alarmed to learn the real Chinese debt figures. “Zambia is a good example of what the International Monetary Fund and the United States Senate are calling a crisis of accelerating developing-country indebtedness to China.
Concerned by China’s growing economic and political influence in Africa, there remains increasing doubt and misinformation regarding China’s true intention. There are also unanswered questions, for instance, the economic value and financial viability of Chinese-led projects, terming them as unnecessary, wasteful, predatory and debt traps that would inherently plunge the continent into a financial crisis. Other commentators allege that African leaders were being hoodwinked into financial commitments for transport infrastructure that are designed to promote Chinese appropriation and extraction of the continent’s minerals and hydrocarbons. They say, that Chinese activities have not created jobs.
Economic growth is determined by accumulation of factors of production — principally capital, labor and technology. Africa’s labor stock is in abundance and growing in number, skillsets and capacity; capital and technology are in short supply yet abundant in Europe and North America.
For Africa’s economies to grow, they must attract capital and technology. But capital flow into Africa has been dismal, elusive and erratic, undermined by illicit financial flows estimated at $50 billion a year. For more than five decades, African leaders have been either unwilling or reluctant to meet Africa’s capital and technology needs. There has been inadequate attention towards boosting productivity, industrialization in Africa and recently trade and public diplomacy with China has significant growing financial and economic footprints in Africa.
Africa has little choice but to finance it development through external debt. It must carefully consider the merits and demerits of Chinese funding or listen to the naysayers, stay on the sidelines and remain poor. But it must guard against wastage, misguided priorities and corruption.
Zimbabwe’s airport has now been taken over by the Chinese, because the Zimbabwean government couldn’t make a debt repayment!
Sack the finance minister, “#ZERO tolerance for all governments across Afrikka.*
That shows you how unsustainable taking loans for infrastructural development in Afrikka is. But remember, there are two fundamental discourses at play here with regards to chinas‘ relationship with Afrikkan countries. The first one is of economics entailing trade, finance and investment. The second one is race and racism, neocolonialism and the ever looming new wave of slavery. These multi faceted phenomena are what interplay to create a sytsem of perpetually living in poverty and want for Afrikkan people.
Our governments borrow money from China without political strings attached. This is very enticing to ruling governments because they can build shiny airports, roads, stadiums, hospitals and claim that to be products of their hardwork and good intentions for their people. This in turn wins them votes from a gullible populace whilst the presidents prepare to stay in power forever. The consequence is to raise taxes which correspondingly push prices of goods and services to levels unaffordable to the average person and below. Then corruption, robberies and graft become the order of the day. Wasn’t this the sequence of events what occurred under the rule of Dawda and Yaya, for example? Adama and Ousainou are taking us the same path.
As long as the productive bases of Afrikkan economies are not built to produce enough for domestic consumption and export, we will continue to be subjected to those kinds of humiliations for decades to come. In my humble opinion, this is what will salvage the day for us in the economic front.
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I have a distinct feeling and experience that many contributors on this platform are allergic to the discourse of race, racism and anti-blakk practices in the world. That is a fatal position to our survival and prosperity as a people. China has now mastered the art of exploiting Afrikka, taught by the imperial savages. Yet, and very unfortunately, many Afrikkans are hoping and even asking Europe and America to rise and fill the market voids that China is exploiting. What nobody is saying is for Afrikkans who are experts on finance and investment to meet and set up a Bank that will fun projects and development programs in Afrikka. Our salvation and triumph will neither come from Asia no Europe or continent America.
Only WE got to come together, mobilize our people and other resources and organize ourselves into the United People of Afrikka to withstand the new onslaught of savagery that is about to be meted onto us.
Mwalimu says,
“I have a distinct feeling and experience that many contributors on this platform are allergic to the discourse of race, racism and anti-blakk practices in the world”.
Mwalimu, I would urge you not to cast aspersions that you couldn’t support with tangible evidence. I also don’t believe that anyone in this platform has presented him/herself as “anti-blakk”. The question off the bat Mwalimu is, why would anyone want to follow your lead without buying into it first??
The positions you have taken of late present a stretch and border on fear mongering instead and I’ll quote you on the segment where you offered that “ The second one is race and racism, neocolonialism and the ever looming new wave of slavery. These multi faceted phenomena are what interplay to create a sytsem of perpetually living in poverty and want for Afrikkan people“!
Slavery in this day and age Mwalimu? While slavery and bondage of various sorts (new or old) do exist in this world, I’m yet to find a people that will willingly subject themselves to slavery outside of the quest for survival. Remember Mwalimu that the average human being is a decent person with the wish to uphold dignity and honor. It is poverty, laziness and nasty politics that invariably bring otherwise decent persons to put their honor and integrity up for sale! And that brings me to your statement below that I partly agree with.
“What nobody is saying is for Afrikkans who are experts on finance and investment to meet and set up a Bank that will fun projects and development programs in Afrikka. Our salvation and triumph will neither come from Asia no Europe or continent America”.
The reservation that I hold is that the seemingly “expert Afrikkans” have shown time and time and time again that their moral values wouldn’t bring them to act selflessly and honorably for the benefit of the hapless masses that keep staring at them in the face EVERYDAY!
In effect Mwalimu, you are free to sell your wares and positions but please don’t, at your level, subscribe to conspiracy theory and fear mongering. You may label me a “Pseudo-Afrikkanist” if you so desire.
I’d however confess to mostly agreeing with you on the AFRICANIST front but will take you to task for what amounts to deficiencies in your messaging.
Our salvation as Africans Mwalimu lies exactly in our hands. From South Africa to Kenya, Lesotho, Somalia, The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Africans have shown time and time again that we’re adept at inflicting our own wounds that we let fester.
The blame lies solely on our doorstep as ACTORS!
“O behold! the clarity of position that which words of conscience and precision bring about”.
Thank you Andy for URGING me not to cast aspersions that I will not be able to support with tangible evidence, even though what I said is far from such. Let me clarify.
When it comes to blakk people and our interaction (contact situations) with other races, there are two extremes that come to the fore. They are negrophobia or negrophilia. Both of these conditions could undoubtedly be referred to as an abjection of blakkness. Negrophobia is not limited in space or time. It has permeated the collective consciousness of all races including the blakk race. So much on that for now.
So my first statement you quoated is a general allusion to how the discourse of race is negated even in blakk spaces, even though blakks are the ones at the receiving end of the horrors of racial categorization, generally speaking. Some of the most controversial discussions I personally have had on the this platform are centered on race, blakk history, blakk culture, blakk economics and so on and so forth. On many occasions I have had to stand up firm, resist attacks, fight back when necessary to defend my political views on race and Afrikka. You can’t deny that many on this platform play to the politics of culture. I on the other hand remain staunchly rooted in the culture of politics. That’s not casting aspersions, just plain cut facts. Try something else.
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I am not asking anyone to follow my lead Andy, or even buy into it. That’s a matter of choice for ALL readers. What we take from here and from each other are options that exist in daily life. Mwalimu can’t control that. And still I haven’t called you any names. Right? Lol
If you want a discussion on whether slavery still exist or not, or a debate on the severity of the after-life of slavery, probably even severe than the Atlantic slave hustle and the maafa, that’s something I would be glad to engage you on but not here.
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You see am not agitating blakk people to hate white people or to love them.
Fear mongering cannot succeed where fear already exists. In other words, you can’t burn a burning log of word, for example. I think I have to double up on the work am doing to bring more consciousness to the minds of millions of our brethren. Help me do that instead of trying to undermine the message.
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I equally agree with you on the issue of the “experts” who turn out to be worst than the vampires. These scale the skin off their own people with the pretext of knowing better and doing better. I think we should slaughter them.
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One thing that left me baffled is the issue about conspiracy theories. I can’t believe that’s coming from you. Why? Because at your level, I will first and foremost do basic hunting for literature on the genesis of slavery, colonialism and how that in real time affect and direct EVERYTHING that we (all human beings) are experiencing today. This experience hinges on capital, production and consumption.
Should I not be capable of that for whatever reasons, I wouldn’t be trying to deligitimize the one voice that’s out there in the trenches creating blakk consciousness and empowerment at every opportunity.
I feel insulted.
But yes as usual, forces that bring down our movements and personalities come from within.
I hope you will retract that statement that i engage in conspiracy theories to further any of my viewpoints here. That will a sign of humility not weakness.
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That nobody will bring us prosperity and dignity is once again where you and I are hitting the drum in unison. But to be able to progress into a better future, you need to understand the past and master the present. We Afrikkans are struggling under the burden of the present because we do not understand the past. We do not understand the past for two reasons:
1) It’s painful to go there. Very painful.
2) We are constantly fed with the lies of a western version of our past.
The future generations needs to know the truth. Whose responsibility is it to give them this truth? You and I, Andy.
Yours in the service of The Gambia and the blakk nation, I remain.
I’d however confess to mostly agreeing with you on the AFRICANIST front but will take you to task for what amounts to deficiencies in your messaging.
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Andy could you please do me the favor of clarifying what you mean with the above sentence.
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But first allow me to make a wild guess on what you mean:
You most agree with my unapologetic pro blakk and pro Afrikkan views, stance and discursive approaches.
But my sometimes unpalatable words that are often construed as insulting to a whole race (the white race; Arabs too?) goes against the methods of communication that would’ve been much desirable in winning hearts and minds to join or be sympathetic to the cause of blakk liberation and emancipation.
My art of word choices spell a deficiency for you. So far no grounds for an earthquake.
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I don’t know what you consider “AFRICANIST”. For me though, it spells the following:
1) A borderless, united, inseparable and well functioning federated states of Afrikka with a single central government, a single central bank and a single currency.
2) A home for all people who could trace their ancestral lineage to the cradle of mankind.
3) A continent and a people who will not discriminate against each other on the basis of ethnolinguistic differences, regionality, skin and hair tones and hues and on the basis of religion.
4) A continent and a people who shall strive to build the most powerful and sophisticated military and war enterprise ever known to mankind.
5) A continent and a people that will build the most resilient economy based on innovation in technology, science, mathematics etc.
6) A continent and a people that will become the envy of all others because of a high standard of living. Not only in consumption but also cultural and spiritual practices.
ETC.
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DEFICIENCIES in messaging
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In 2015, the IMO reported that close to 3000 Afrikkans died in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe. Do the math and see how much that will give you in 400+ years of the AST.
So what has changed for you or what else do you need to hear or know to accept the reality that blakk slavery still exists, just in multi faceted forms.
My language and my message are tailored to suit present realities.
Have I raised many eyebrows over the times? Oh yes! Has it made my life difficult sometimes? You’d bet!
Will I change my style? You can answer that.
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Yours in the service of The Gambia and the blakk nation, I remain.
Mwalimu again says,
“I hope you will retract that statement that i engage in conspiracy theories to further any of my viewpoints here. That will a sign of humility not weakness”.
No Mwalimu, I will not retract the statement.
I believe that the test of my humility would be best served by a one on one session in The Gambia over a bowl of SERRENGABU and the real Kombo Charlo with our long lost pal, Babu Soli refereeing.
I’d prefer Bax though.
Oh and don’t forget to bring a Kudaa and a Kaani Kulungo so I may rub the Manding adage, A Tuu Jang Tuu Jango …., in your face.
That’ll also afford you the opportunity of getting into my head Mwalimu. So come prepared for a real Nyo Boringo Ndombondirr style.
My buddy from Kunjuru, Ntong Korma Kaary, would be welcome too!
On another note, I believe that Bourne may be on to something here and I’d quickly add that Africans must be willing to sport dirty hands in meaningful endeavors if we’re to extricate ourselves out of the rut that we constantly find ourselves in.
We must commit to finding the ART in the SCIENCE! How else can we motivate the teeming youth population if we can’t serve as the pragmatic Serign Daaras? I’m actively doing my part in the agricultural sciences and not just offering cheap rhetoric like our own Domorr Foday Barrow.
Do I sound confusing enough Mwalimu. Smile.
I’ll let Babu Soli do the honours, if we can find him, that is. And sister Dr I. Sarr!!! Whatever happened to our comrades on Jollofnews. Bourne, raise the alarm!!!! Comrades missing in action!!!
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On a more serious note:
I am shocked, but relieved at the same time, that the IMF and the US are worried about China’s alleged policy of deliberately indebting African countries. (“A major worry of the IMF and US is that China’s BRI strategy is first to encourage indebtedness…..”)
Why am I shocked?
1. (a) Well, isn’t the IMF one of the institutions that has been presiding over the supposed development plans of African countries since independence?
(b) Isn’t it true that Africa’s massive indebtedness occurred under the watch of the IMF and its sister institutions, like the WB?
(c) Wouldn’t it be fair, even if we did not have the evidence, (courtesy of the economic hitman) for us to conclude that the West and its institutions pursue a deliberate policy of indebting African countries as a tool for economic and political control?
(d) Aren’t we all witnesses to the shameful behaviour of Nikki Harley at the UN, when she literally threatened countries before a UN vote? What was her leverage against independent UN voting member states, if not cash and material handouts?
2. (a) In a curious sort of way, this information constitutes the “letting of the cat out of the bag”, because what is true of China’s policy of massive loan disbursements to Africa, is also true in the case of the West and her institutions.
(b) Thus, the IMF may be raising legitimate concerns but it is disingenious and hypocritical, because they are as guilty as China. They are not concerned about Africa’s massive indebtedness and its ramifications on the African People, but only because they are fighting China, which they see as an adversary.
(d) I do not know what else African Leaders, like our own President Barrow and VP Darboe, need to be convinced that reliance on foreign sources of funds is counterproductive to sustainable development.
3. We need to mobilise our own resources and create our own economic, financial and payment systems, if we are to break away from this cruel strategy of exploiting and surpressing Africa for ever.
So Bourne, we will henceforth go with the pseudonym, Domorr Foday so we don’t draw the ire of sycophants that would want our skins for “insulting” their Mansa!
So Bourne a handful of us on this medium did express interest in coming together to promote youth entrepreneurship in The Gambia. However, in typical Gambian bureaucratic fashion, the “Economists” in the group that were gonna parse out the concepts for rigor and substance went MIA.
So the energy has effectively dissipated and I’m out.
And Bourne, please don’t disparage the lowly Charlo, otherwise fondly called Kombo Tuura for you may be rubbing folks from Demba Duu the wrong way.
As opposed to Domorr Foday, I belong to the Foday Nying Killing camp that’s always on the side of the hungry and downtrodden.
You may recall the old Gaabu song that goes, Foday Nying Killing, TABAA TABAA Sumbulaa, Ya Jay Daa Wo Daa, Teyrang Kungo Baa Bulu……
That’s where I’m coming from as we couldn’t afford the Kujally, Tonuno or Sipaa. We only heard about them. So we thrived on the lowly Charlo and Catfish. So now that I live in the US, I thrive on chicken, the Kambia Saa Kotongo in America. Smile.
Will let Mwalimu take it from there.
You have veered off topic and initiated a new one. Fine with me. smiles.
I am game Andy, it will be an honor to have a conversation on race over a bowl of duurango, typical badibunka style. Let me know when you are in Gambia, I’ll pay you a visit.
I have recognized that you are multi talented a long time ago. Yet, I believe I have underestimated your ability to float between multiple languages. You code-switch far better than a polyglot child. It’s humorously beautiful!
@ Bourne: For me to be able to answer any innuendos and for our encounters here to be productive, you can refer to me directly when you are making a take on anything and everything I write. That way you will be giving me too the opportunity to clarify, make additions or revise a previous position if I realize the alternative you putting out is more sensible.
@Bax: Babu Soli has had some brushing fights here. He is probably recuperating.
I miss Dida around. Probably enjoying the summer and a likkle…..just for fun.
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The West and institutions are just afraid of loosing out to China on resources and political influence. One is not better that the other in my opinion.
We are should rise up agains both.
I have asked close to two thousand Gambians these two questions:
1) What is tribe or an ethnic group?
2) What character traits does one need to exhibit to qualify to be a Manjago, a Fula, Jola, and all what have you?
The majority first answered that you are what you speak as a primary language. Some suggest patriarchal lineage determines ones tribe or ethnicity. Even region came as an answer. Yet, the more we continue to interrogate these assertions, the more we realize how intangible the cultural classification of tribe and ethnicity becomes even more unstable.
Am only narrating this to you Bourne because I feel what is really lacking in our midst is knowledge and understanding of and about ourselves. This ignorance is then exploited by sectionalist politicians to win votes and keep the people in a perpetual chain of poverty. But thanks for adding on the list of topics to be tackle with Andy.
If you care to know I have written extensively on the question of ethnic identity and I continue to advocate for the democratization of language and culture as a counter narrative to that which presently obtains in our country. That way, we will create awareness and shift ownership of peaceful coexistence into the hands of the people.
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Having said that, I can’t understand for the life of me why you or anyone else for that matter would appoint themselves to police me on whether/when/how/where I should or should not talk about race and racism. That’s truly confusing for me and hopefully, you have a damn good justification for it.
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“Don’t eat Duurango and wash your hands on man’s doorstep.”
A strange collocation or idiomatic expression I can’t figure out.
Essentially, your list of Dos and Don’ts for me does not address the topical issues we both are trying to contribute to. It only distracts.
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Mwalimu said: “4) A continent and a people who shall strive to build the most powerful and sophisticated military and war enterprise ever known to mankind.”
Indeed, our insurance for a future free from ALL forms of degrading and dehumanizing treatment lies in our ability to defend ourselves from the evil designs and aggression of the usual culprits.
What’s worrying and troubling, Mwalimu, is that no one that really matters seems to be concerned about the vulnerability and weakness of the entire continent, at a time when even the most optimistic cannot fail to see the writings of an impending doom in the horizon on the walls.
With the emergence into public office and public space in the West, of people who would not even have dared to be visible in the periphery of public space, never mind seek public office just a few decades ago, we should be frantically expediting our efforts to put resources together for our collective security.
As Africans and a people seen by almost all as occupying the very bottom of the perceived human social ladder, we should not be in any doubt what our fate will be if these evil ideologies triumph and become the dominant players on the public stage, as happened in the 30’s and 40’s.
We owe it to ourselves and to generations yet born, to wake up from our deep slumber, stop electing/appointing numb heads into public office and begin to take the steps that others are taking, to ensure our collective security and survival as a dignified people.
I would just like to point out how I think it is madness that Africa continues to export that rare resource we possess: uranium, given what we know about it and open iourselves to military colonisation by allowing the stationing of foreign forces on our soil.
Why Africa? Why?
I quote Bax:
What’s worrying and troubling, Mwalimu, is that no one that really matters seems to be concerned about the vulnerability and weakness of the entire continent, at a time when even the most optimistic cannot fail to see the writings of an impending doom in the horizon on the walls.
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And even more scary is when you have a populace that is ignorant of itself and how its affairs are managed by a leadership bent on keeping it ignorant for power, control, privileges and fear of its “white masters”.
I believe a paradigm shift could only be engineered from ordinary people like me, you, Samba, Yero, Madi, Bourne, Tilli Bo and all the people who take time to reflect and act on the precarious conditions of Afrikka and blakk people. Yes we might squabble, yes there might be internal tensions, yes it will be painful and difficult. But we have what it takes as a people to come together, create the recipe for immediate and undelayed unity of this continent within the next decade. Am very positive we can do this.
Per Mwalimu,
“Am only narrating this to you Bourne because I feel what is really lacking in our midst is knowledge and understanding of and about ourselves. This ignorance is then exploited by sectionalist politicians to win votes and keep the people in a perpetual chain of poverty. But thanks for adding on the list of topics to be tackle with Andy.
If you care to know I have written extensively on the question of ethnic identity and I continue to advocate for the democratization of language and culture as a counter narrative to that which presently obtains in our country. That way, we will create awareness and shift ownership&l of peaceful coexistence into the hands of the people”.
Really Mwalimu? “A lack of knowledge and understanding of and about ourselves”??
What facts serve to buttress the foregoing statement?
Mwalimu, I would also urge you to really ponder over your use of the word, “ignorance” in the Gambian context. I’m deeply troubled by the position that you’re wont to take whenever folks don’t share your views and I’m getting to discern a pattern in your writing and narratives that I’d be glad to tackle with you over a bowl of Lachirry Eh Kossam when you and I ultimately come face to face for a Lewru Bassendeng (Nyo Boringo) in The Gambia.
And pleeease Mwalimu in the interest of brevity, keep the writing short. You may agree that important messages do get lost in translation with lengthy narratives. And this comment is by no means an affront to your intellectual prowess!
With up front apologies to my pal Bax, do I see a semblance of a PDOIS-esque messaging game plan in play with your writing Mwalimu. And yes, I’ll take you to task to prove me wrong!
By the Mwalimu Duurango doesn’t belong to Badibu You must also qualify the Duurango to state, Tiya Duurango, Teng Duurango, Nama Duurango or Bukolo that all belong to Kiang (CHIANG) and Jarra.
For Badibu, it’s the Baara Maani Suuro (for Chuuro) Chukurrmaa (for Sukurrmaa) or the Tiya Kerreh Chuuro. I have part of my roots in Badibu Kunjuru. Smile.
I never knew Andy, that that delicious recipe originates from anywhere other than mighty Badibu. I won’t dare take your word for it though. I will sneak around and get to the bottom of that claim. I hope there are no Kiankas around to think we want to steal ownership of the legendary duurango from them.
You nicely juxtaposed the different varieties of duurango. I thought to myself…….Andy will make a wonderful food writer.
For the first article, you could feature Domorr Foday and his appetite for BBQ and how that’s contributing to a new sense of fashion for men with extreme extended waistlines.
Indeed Mwalimu, I may just do a nice write up on how the illusionary EU and Chinese Billions would, “courtesy” of Domorr Foday with a penchant for NAA FULO, Duwa and shiny objects, go to funding bridges, causeways and all weather trunk roads (PPP) in Suduwol, Garawol, Sabi, SARE MANKAMANG and Gambisara and create a hundred thousand jobs in testy Kombo.
Meanwhile the BENA KINOLU (for Benachin), SUBU MUNKO (Niani) and Husseinou LA SOSSY MARINEH would be flowing endlessly in NYO LONG KUNDA. All while adding to the girth, waistline and pouches of the inhabitants of KERR NJIIRO (FURRERAY KUNDA).
You may have just triggered something Mwalimu.
P.S. Mwalimu your Badibu roots would remind you of the Badibu Kunjuru Jamindango, that goes, among others, BARROW MANG NAA SII.
So the question is whether Nying Barrow Dung Naata Sii Leh Bang??