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Posted to the web 7 July 2008

James Shikwati

As G8 leaders assemble in Toyako in Japan, it has not escaped keen observers that the entry of China into the game of doling money has radically changed the way Africa is perceived in the World. Africa has become a strategic energy supplier to large economies.

The G8 has been synonymous with Tony Blair's sentiments of characterizing Africa as "the scar on the conscience of the World". The G8's traditional approach to Africa has always been backed up by a squad of celebrities and Western NGOs who thrive on "popularizing" poverty, disease, famine and hopelessness on the continent.

GA_googleFillSlot("AllAfrica_Story_Inset"); In 2005, just when everyone's attention had been directed towards the "misery" and "darkness" of the continent through NGO campaigns, Western celebrity bands and Tony Blair's Commission for Africa project; China struck! The entry of China with ...

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