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Saturday May 16, 2020
AUTHOR:
Lindokuhle Gama
FACULTY: Dr.Kerry Hunter
DEPARTMENT: International Political Economy
China’s involvement in Africa has long been a bone of contention among scholars, foreign and development policy experts alike. The myriad of research has mostly focused on the sundry of financial benefits that China garners from its long term oil contracts in Angola. In this paper, I buttress Croese and Ovadia’s research postulating that China’s involvement in Angola has resulted in greater economic growth for the country however, about forty eight percent of the population still live under the one dollar ninety cents a day international poverty line. Using a largely interpretive and structural perspective of the dealings of Angola’s former President, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, I argue that China’s credit loans and oil diplomacy fortify both clientist patrimonial linkages and patrimonial linkages across kinship. In my analysis, I also delineate how China and the United States’ foreign policy may seem different in principal, however, both countries create dependency in Angola.
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