Africa’s courtship with China, a captivating dance between the elephant and the dragon, has intriguing implications for all concerned and the world at large, assetrs PT Zeleza. It is marked by, on the one hand, the grand political theatre of elaborate presidential tours and lavish summits, with their lofty declarations of equal partnership between the distant peoples of these two ancient lands, by all those dramatic and diplomatic displays of statehood beloved of postcolonial or postrevolutionary societies enchanted by their sovereignty.
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