Critical Review of Book- The Rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and critical interventions edited by Fantu Cheru, Cyril Obi
The Asian giants i.e. China and India have embarked upon an African Safari which the west pursued hopelessly. The Chinese investment in Africa is largely dominated by State-owned enterprises on the contrary India drives through its private sectors. The explosive rise of the giant nations also attributes to the replacement of North-South Polarity to strengthening of South-South relationship.The post cold war neo-liberal ’free markets’ paradigm has practically opened out the introvert colonialist thought process. It also ends the simple uni-polar and Bipolar world to and more dynamic and complex multipolar global economic system. The hunt for abundance of variety of African resources including significant natural oil reserves, diamonds etc and the ever growing energy needs of China and India complement each of the factors of demand and supply. Though China and India have their clear-minded African Policy, the African Union is still in the process of having one to deal with the e