Paper short abstract:

This communication aims to underline the economic and political consequences of the arrival of Chinese goods in Africa in term of extraversion management, through ethnographic materials collected in motorcycle sector in Burkina Faso, between 2010 and 2013.

Paper long abstract:

This communication aims to underline the economic and political consequences of the arrival of Chinese goods in Africa in term of extraversion management, through ethnographic materials collected in motorcycle sector in Burkina Faso, between 2010 and 2013. Importation of Chinese motorcycles in Burkina Faso has increased significantly since 2000. This supply chain reorientation has led to a deep restructuring of this sector, marked by the withdrawal of historical industrial and commercial actors under the pressure of the emergence of a new generation of African transnational traders. Prior to that change, the motorcycles industry was used to be a rent-seeking sector for Burkinabe elites. In stressing on the creation and the capture of a rent generated by dependency, the theory of extraversion would entail highlighting who now benefits from the rent of the motorcycles' importation. In this article, I assume that, behind the accumulation positions redistribution process, occurred following the emergence of the new generation of transnational traders, rent control have only been partially modified by the arrival of Chinese motorcycles. In fact, it has led to a redefinition of extraversion management modalities, but not a subversion of its logics. The rent is still to the benefit of the Burkinabe political elite, but they are now inclined to give up a part of their rentier spaces in order to maintain stability.