Obama just had a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C.( seems the US could not find a single nation in Africa willing to host Obama's Africom.)
Melvin Foote, founder of the Constituency for Africa who promote African interests in Washington, sai "..it was disingenuous for the White House to claim the summit was not in large part a respense to China."
China have been building roads, ports, schools, airports and railroads. The US aid over the past few decades has gone to corruption
roping up authoritarian dictators and not been felt by the people.
China's trade with Africa last year was $200 billion, double that of the US.
It is past time for these 'Free Trade' scams to be exposed for what they are, viz, the total opposite of Free Trade, which is tariffs and state protectionism.
Sadly, Africa in the main is a complex dictator/military mess, and rich, easy, mineral pickings for the more developed countries and no-one to protect its vulnerabilities.