The differences between China-US foreign policies in Africa mirrors long held theoretical debates and is highly complicated. Simeon (2010:58) argues that “after the Second World War, United States of America–Africa policy was determined by a continuous effort to impose American values of democracy and human rights, constitutes the base of the US “rhetorical commitments to Africa”. However the manner in which the objectives were pursued were generally remained shaped by United States (US) geo-strategic interests of containing the Soviet/Communism expansionism on the continent and building ideological affiliation with African countries (Simeon 2010).Power and Mohan (2008:17) argue that “China’s aid, economic cooperation and foreign policy approach differ from the traditional Western models, both in their content and also in norms of practise. Chinese policy towards Africa centred on respect of sovereignty and ‘non-interference’ in internal affairs which by and large differentiates it from Western approaches that unavoidably comes with conditionality’s (Power and Mohan 2010). Patten (2009) argues that while the Western approach is based on an idealistic view of good intentions, the Chinese paradigm is much more objective, pragmatic, flexible and effective. According to US policy makers China-Africa cooperation ensure that human rights concern do not take a place on top in the international agenda (Pollock 2003). Against such a backdrop the problem is that the US comes with external solutions to African problems, while on the other hand the Chinese foreign policy promotes and supports undemocratic governments and also it promotes bad governance in Africa as pointed by Sun (2014) that Chinese activities in Africa are often characterised as ‘evil’ when they are seen representing China’s selfish quest for natural resources and damaging Africa’s fragile efforts to improve good governance and democracy since China supports undemocratic governments in Africa.

Africa lacks a clear path of its foreign policy thus become torn apart of whether to look West or East hence the problem of neo-colonialism manifest. Pham (2005) argue that sadly exploited by colonial rulers before being divided by proxy battles of the Cold War rivals, the African continent as it continuous to brightened by environmental degradation, economic malaise, social misrule has not yet to see any ‘peace dividend’. This article analyses that the competition of interests of US and China in Africa has brought more harm than good this is because Africa still lags behind in terms of development despite the increased involvement of these two super powers (US and China) in the African continent. The African continent has been reduced to become an “exploitative zone” because of the US-China struggle for resources. In this struggle for resources, different mechanisms have been used to lure African countries into the exploitation trap with the effect that the USA and China, especially, have now been locked in a new cold.