When it comes to Africa, the Chinese are disgraceful. This is based on my first hand experiences, the current Chinese influences in Africa are deplorable. The CCP and CCP controlled companies like to work with totalitarian regimes and dictatorships that share common interests of subjugation of their population – one party nations.

We all know the European history in Africa; it’s not great. It can’t be defended on so many levels, the Europeans exploited the wealth of Africa during the period of colonialism – we all know that. That being said, we now live in an enlightened world where racism no longer exists – ok, now I’m pushing it.

You shouldn’t work in Africa if you are racist, that goes without saying. That being said, the racism in Africa is astounding, coming from a Caucasian background, for me, this is embarrassing as I just don’t believe in this bullshit. From my work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I am exposed to a large number of Congolese nationals with high-level skill-sets. As a trainer, I would love to take credit for this but it just isn’t true, these are long term employees of the company who have been trained on the job.

So when I see the Chinese influence in Africa, I cannot believe what I see. Sure, the Chinese see this as their time to exploit the wealth of Africa, this is the final untapped frontier. Africa is mostly undeveloped and there is opportunity, unfortunately the wealth of Africa isn’t shared around to the people. This is where we disagree, why not return a degree of wealth through employment, through training, through development and through development?