Quote Originally Posted by M-A Lagrange View Post
Hello JMA

The aid against good governance dispute is not the one I am looking at. If most African leaders do not want to have to comply with good governance, on the otherhand, donors as European powers are tired to borrow money to them.
But the question of divorce (can we call it that way) between "european powers" and Africa is deeper. Africa leaders are too quick to claim West to abuse them.
And by the way, as far as I can see, Africa Leaders do not want to be in charge of the business. They were not that quick to provide troops and equipment for Darfur or DRC...
This 'divorce' will not happen as Africa is sitting on natural resources and China is more than willing to fill the gap if western countries pull out. Western countries will try to remain engaged with Africa, will compete with China and finally lose out to China as the dominant player. China needs the natural resources to fuel its economy and is growing in confidence and is already shouldering the US out of the way, so what chance have the UK and France?