China has equally ramped up investments and development assistance to Africa in a bid to hoist the latter’s productive sectors for faster economic growth. NON-INTERFERENCEThe China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University reports China has advanced 1,077 loan facilities worth $147 billion (Sh15 trillion) to African countries. In Africa, development programmes are often divorced from knowledge and spawned on political expediency instead of long-term returns. This has enabled China to learn from the experiences of other countries, borrowing and domesticating what has worked while eschewing the pitfalls. African countries have much to learn from China to achieve their domestic aspirations without necessarily becoming another China.

Source: Daily Nation July 08, 2020 21:00 UTC