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Integrating Africa to
global economy: Seeking a trilateral partnership of Sino-US
and European Union
Dibah James Bala* and Wencong Lu
Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) Zhejiang
University, Hua-jia-chi Campus,
Hangzhou 310029 China.
*Corresponding author. E-mail:
dibahjb@yahoo.com.
Tel: + 86 13216175745
Accepted 7 September, 2009 |
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This paper looks at the emerging presence of China in Africa
along the parallel presence of U.S for raw materials and
energy. While China’s presence has been perceived in the
west as colonizing Africa that of America is suspicious,
even though their quests and strategies are at variance, U.S
preaches “good governance with responsibility”, transparency
and accountability, China prefers the “soft power” and
non-interference. At official levels, there is no “cold
war’’ the mutual suspicions, is likely to endanger the
sustainability of such resources, thus there is need for a
collaboration in partnership between China, the U.S and the
European Union, using Africa’s Road Map for economic
integration, especially effective use of oil revenues and
agricultural reforms and trade liberalization for economic
integration for the mutual benefits Africa and the partners.
This would present formidable opportunities and challenges
that would profoundly alter the process of economic growth
of the continent.
Key words:
Economic integration, the continent, “soft power”,
responsible governance, production and consumption patterns. |
