Paper short abstract:

Samir Amin has played a critical role in shaping academia in the discourse of dependency. His ideas on international capitalism and core-periphery relations have had wide application and followers. This study proposes to test some of Samir Amin's ideas on the sino ZImbabwe relations.

Paper long abstract:

Zimbabwe- Chinese relations can be dated as way back as the pre-colonial period in the 13th century. Archaeologists, for example, have unearthed evidence of trade relations between the Chinese and the people on the Zimbabwean plateau. In contemporary history, the Chinese have been known to help the Zimbabwe people to fight the liberation struggle. In the far more recent years the Chinese have established a stronger linker that is far more economic and their presence in the country can be felt in different economic spaces that include mining, retail and even agriculture. This relationship has triggered scholars to interpret the meanings of such a relationship which, more ways than one, has duplicated the dependency on the West and replicated core-periphery relations. It is within this context that this study seeks to test Samir Amin's on international capitalism using the case of SINO-Zimbabwe relations. Samir Amin has played a critical role in shaping academia in the discourse of dependency. His ideas on international capitalism, core-periphery relations, historical materialism have had wide application and followers. Equally, there have also received a fair share of criticism.