China Is Africa’s New Colonial Overlord, Says Famed Primate Researcher Jane Goodall

China has spent nearly $100 billion in African projects over the last decade — and Jane Goodall is not impressed.

 

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In an interview with Agence France-Press published on Monday, the longtime animal rights activist who has spent most of her life on the continent, compared Chinese investment with old-school British colonialism.

“In Africa, China is merely doing what the colonialists did. They want raw materials for their economic growth, just as the colonialists were going into Africa and taking the natural resources, leaving people poorer,” she told AFP in an interview in Johannesburg

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