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Paper short abstract:

The Silk Roads celebrate their anniversary this year. In ten years, China has spent nearly a trillion euros to finance projects in telecommunications infrastructure, among others. It has created a complex network of land corridors.

Paper long abstract:

Chinese investment in Africa’s tech infrastructure continues to gain momentum on the continent. The “Made in China” technology serves now as the backbone of network infrastructure in several African countries. And they are providing the next generation of technology. Nowhere is Huawei’s presence and strategy more evident than in Africa, a continent it entered for the first time in 1998, where it successfully dispelled the “Made in China“ image of low cost and low quality. In Senegal, Huawei won the first major project funded by China since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Beijing and Dakar in 2005. The aim of this program was to participate in the modernization of public administration in Senegal; the establishment of a broadband network using new technologies and for making the extension of the administrative government intranet management of all services to reach all parts of the country. Currently, the company achieves on the development of the State’s digital infrastructure (Datacenter, Senegal Services Centers, Optical Fibre, Smart City, Safe City, etc.). The various phases of this turnkey project are financed by an Eximbank loan from China to the Senegalese government.At the heart of these digitals Silk Roads which draw so much sympathy and criticism, the Huawei Group is rewriting the future of technology in Africa. Were the digitals silks roads a debt trap? Is it a threatens on African digital sovereignty? Could African countries they say no to China when it brings them technology? H