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The rise of china and India in Africa; From an economic perspective
with India preferring to leave it to private companies, and China
favoring the state-led approach.

- African states have to increase and promote strong economic and
political strategies within and beyond the region in order to track

their own policies. This has to be set in the framework of inter- and
intra-colonial and post Cold War political tensions and conflicts,

which impose on growth.

- It is of grand main benefit to Africa that the appearance of China
and India and thus the shifting international trade and industry

scheme and influence administration resolve the problems and put
an end to the bipolar globe of the cold war era. It will also end

the attempted ‘Unipolarity’ system of hegemony that the USA has
since been trying to force on the break of the world. There will

hereafter be a much more multifaceted multi-polar scheme of eco-
nomic and political hegemonies that will offer many calculated op-

portunities and strategic varieties for all the developing countries
and for Africa.

- African governments need to recognize the essential importance of
uniting and formulating common policies in order to exploit their
influence in counterbalancing or ‘playing off’ the diverse powers

and in order to avoid themselves from being separated and played

off in opposition to one another in such a much more multifaceted
rising global situation. The capability – and the political will – of
African administrations to estimate and act jointly on any of the

above scenarios is the supreme confront that is in front of Africa.

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