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So the Inca, Mayan and Aztecs had African slaves? Also the Arabs introduced industrial slavery to Africa just FYI and as far as I’m aware India never had African slaves but I could be wrong.
I guess industrialization of Africa is the next “arms” race.   Sounds like a good thing. >

I have my doubts that the 2 massive economies  of the US  and China will do anything  good and alturstic  for African nations, beyond crippling them with unsustainable debt, setting up sweat shops for their supply chains  and further corrupting their mostly already corrupted  governments. 
These two nations political and ruling class, don't  give fuck about the well-being of most of their owns citizen, so they sure as fuck don't  care about Africans beyond exploting them. I've seen the exact same thing play out in South-East Asia. It's  not about anything except dividing the world up like  a Risk board >


It's not about anything except dividing the world up like a Risk board

The world was being divided up a long long time ago.  I don't know if you noticed or not but the previous empires that did that (like England, France, Spain) ended up losing control.   This is just another round but hopefully an influx of industry will help these African nations rally and really grow past their constant wars with their neighbors.   shrug. >

Of course I  noticed previous empires but thinking this time will be different, well .. I  doubt that very much. Lot of people got fucked over massively .. but hey maybe in hundred years time the empire will decline. Come on, really >

History rhymes and human nature hasn't changed. >

That is one reason China has been a positive for Africa. Prior to their involvement most of the 'aid' came from the west, and since there was no alternative, western aid didn't accomplish much developmentally and was used to create dependency on the west. Much of the aid was stolen or misappropriated with full knowledge of the aid organizations. In addition a lot of the aid was used on minimally effective projects, i.e. sending 'experts' to lecture Africans about this or that. China comes along and starts building infrastructure, sparing Africans the lectures and instead constructing things with higher valued-added projects. So the west either has to match what China is doing or lose influence. Hopefully this competition can be helpful to Africans instead of merely serving the interests of foreign powers.
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Ah so China is just giving them fish instead of teaching them how to fish. Ofc Africans will see that as a much better solution. >

No, China is giving them a fishing rod. How can African countries develop their economy without basic infrastructure like roads etc. >

China isn't giving Africa a fishing rod.
Africans are paying a Chinese firm to do a fish ecology study, a Chinese EPC contractor to design build and construct the rod, a Chinese O&M contractor to provide rod maintenance, and a Chinese payments firm to collect the toll charged each time someone actually wants to use the rod to fish. >

They still have a rod to use and to get their own fish. Which is better than the Western strategy of giving them money to buy fishes from Western firms. 
It's not ideal, but it's an improvement - which is why Africans took the deal. >

Your misunderstanding begins with the belief that the west doesn't build infrastructure in Africa like China does. In a lot of cases Western and Chinese firms compete to win concessions from governments to build these infrastructure projects. >

Yeah. That's the problem.
Maybe China pays Chinese laborers and Chinese engineers to make a railway that uses Chinese parts that need to be bought from Chinese firms. 
Guess what? Kenya still gets a usable railway at the end of it for basically free. That is not value-less. 
What does the West do? Offer loans with stringent conditions that force open markets and other neoliberal policies that make domestic industries less competitive, and then Kenya has to take that loan to pay for the railroad themselves (by hiring a foreign firm to do it anyway). 
Which is preferable for Kenya? Western policy in Africa since the fall of the USSR has been myopic. >

I always wanted us to foster better relations with the African countries. It’s a massive continent full of resources and people that could add to the global economy. Granted, Africa is probably tired of the West and Europe involving themselves in their affairs but if we can provide resources and training to the people for industrial jobs, their economy and people get the benefit and we get trading partners who have more to offer the US and the World. >

Yeah good luck with that. China and Russia already have a firm footing. >

Hey remember us ? We used to have slaves from Africa,  let's be friends >

(Almost) Every country did >

No they didn’t. What you mean to say is every Arab and Western European country had slaves but that isn’t even half the worlds countries. >

Well, African tribes enslaved one another long before they met arab or european people.
Same goes for the old South American civilisations. 
And for North American natives.
India has known slavery aswell. 
I don't know about SEA countrys or Australia, but slavery was a very wide spread concept in the world for thousands of years