A donkey is a slave and it does most of the hard work while its master gets paid. That is exactly the situation between Africa & The EU, Africa & China, Africa & The US
If the quality of life of a donkey was to improve then the master would have to do the hard work and his quality of life would deteriorate. So Africa will remain in its donkey status for another century or two.
That analogy perfectly fits the China West relationship not Africa. Ndio maana unaona wazungu going ape shot over China.
China was supposed to be a low value manufacturer and assembler ndio inflation ikue chini and at the same time enable the wazungus concentrate of high value high margin products.
It was not supposed to be a competitor and now that they are climbing up the value chain and displacing the West, the colonizers are having non of it.
Ndio maana unaskia decoupling this decoupling that :D:D:D