Using Ghana as a case study, the chapter posits that China is a development partner of Africa, and Ghana specifically, with a different approach, compared to the Western Eurocentric partners. It points out the divergences between the...
moreUsing Ghana as a case study, the chapter posits that China is a development partner of Africa, and Ghana specifically, with a different approach, compared to the Western Eurocentric partners. It points out the divergences between the Eurocentric developmental approach to Ghana and the Chinese approach by focusing on the bilateral relations (i.e., socio-economic, political and cultural) between the Ghanaian state and China. The chapter seeks to examine the impact of sixty years of China-Ghana development partnership. It shows that six-decades of developmental partnership has led to trade and foreign direct investment, official development assistance (ODA), the development of infrastructure, technical cooperation and educational assistance. Conversely, some major contemporary limitations to Ghana-China bilateral relations persist, these are: the involvement of private business Chinese nationals in artisanal small-scale mining, growing anti-Chinese sentiment as a result of Chinese take-over of the local market and Ghana’s increasing debt to China. The chapter is based on a qualitative desktop content analysis of primary and secondary data. The primary data are from documentary sources, stakeholder reports, discussions and statements from experts and government officials available on various online platforms such as YouTube, GhanaWeb, Joy News and interviews conducted by several news agencies and journalists on the topic. The secondary data are from books, journals, online news outlets amongst others.
