An Afrocentric Review of the Key Drivers of China’s Africa Policy: Case Study of Ethiopia

Abstract

China-Africa relations have recently become a subject of considerable scholarly attention. It is in this context that the author analyses the relations between China and Ethiopia in the context of the key drivers of the Asian giant's foreign policy towards the African country. This research article was driven by the desire to analyse the key drivers of China's Ethiopia Policy because of the limited scholarly literature in existence on the subject under review. Similarly, the newly fastest developing theory of Afrocentricity (as informed by African way of knowing) has been adopted to better shape China's international relations with Ethiopia. Henceforth, it is adopted in this article to contribute to the existing limited scholarly discourse on China-Ethiopia relations from an African-centred contextual and theoretical lens. A qualitative approach was adopted in the form of document analysis and preliminary findings revealed that China's key interests in Ethiopia are centred on the latter's agricultural products and diplomatic support from the de facto political capital of Africa.