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By the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, Africa had been marginalized by superpowers in the new international order which turned to be a unipolar system or a one superpower world’. All attention was given to Eastern European countries in order to be integrated economically and politically in such new order. For which, literature argued that ‘Africa is falling off the world map’. However, Africa came again to the center of both great and rising powers, including China, attention at the beginning of the new millennium. China introduced itself as a developing country to the African states to improve what is known as South-South Cooperation. The Chinese government had announced that its economic role in Africa is based on mutual development and non interference. It came with developmental globalization and non-conditional aids to the continent. However, following up the Chinese practices especially economic ones proves that there is a huge gap and contradiction between both practices and the previous ideal principles adopted by China in its foreign policy towards African states. In this regard, this report will discuss the dark side of the Chinese economic role in Africa, especially the Chinese investments or the negative effects of such investments on the African continent. The report is divided into three sections. The first one discusses an overview on the Chinese economic role in Africa. The second section overviews the negative effects of the Chinese economic role on Africa including the problems related to the human rights dimension, the rising military Chinese role to protect its economic interests, the new debt crisis and the environmental effects. The report is included by recommendations in order to minimize the side effects of the Chinese investments in Africa and also to maximize the Africa’s benefits of its economic partnership with such a rising power
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