Abstract

Dibah James Bala* and Wencong Lu

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.