Paper short abstract:

Development Aid and partners; endless corruption in Africa

Paper long abstract:

China's involvement in Africa has lately become a highly emotive debate in international diplomacy. In applying its non-interferencepolicy on Africa's development, Chinese companies have taken over the construction of road network and other economic infrastructure in Angola, Kenya, Nigeria, among other African countries. While the policy embraces the right of sovereign countries to manage their own affairs without any interference from outsiders, I argue in this paper that china is cunningly manipulating the weak fiscal policies of African countries and exploit loopholes in young democracies in its quest for selfish benefits. Example, China's engagement has devastated local industries in Lesotho. I also argue that China does not care to maintain ethical standards or operate with moral principles when doing business in Africa because their contracts are secured through outright bribery by building presidential palaces (case of Namibia etc.) or the deals are opaque and on barter terms dictated by China. Most alarming is that china deals with any rogue regime in Africa as it supplies jet fighters, military vehicles and guns to Zimbabwe, Sudan, Ethiopia and other repressive governments. In essence the paper argues that, China is literally assisting African continent in halting steps towards democratic accountability and better governance.