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The rise of china and India in Africa; From an economic perspective
From this point, this paper will first examine the China- India’s
relations with Africa in the earlier period, mainly among the 1950s

and the 1990s. Then it will analyze the two giants’ fresh conditions
of appointment with the African continent in 1990s, through focus-

ing on the trade and industry aspect, and attempts to carve out the
role of the two “Asian Economic Giants” within the continent with

respect to trade and Foreign Direct Investment in the process of de-
velopment of African region.

Historical background about the China-India relations with Africa

Considering the historical background as a method to strengthen
present-day dealings with Africa, the two continents Asia and Africa

are not new. India’s trade with Africa’s eastern and southern regions
dates backside to at least the time of the Silk Road, and China has

been concerned on the continent since it in progress investing near,
mostly in transportation, during the postcolonial period.

In the 19th century, India and China’s relations with Africa were

tied by migration and commerce; especially the economic relations
between the two continents go back to the fourteenth century, when

unearthed the “Mohenjo-Daro” coins in Egypt, and the finding of
the port of Lothal in Gujarat, dating backside to those times, which

involve some buy and sell in sea between the shore of India and the
earliest African civilizations as early as 4,000–5,000 years ago . It
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is through years that there have been a number of populations’ ex-
changes between the two sides. Starting the thirteenth to the begin-

ning of the eighteenth century, some of the Africans (habshis) were

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