China is all over Africa, as they were during the Cold War, only more so. And all over Latin America (Venezuela), and all over Europe (see Chinese colony in N Italy). Now I am not anti-Chinese, but I don't think Emperor Xi is doing anything for my good, but for his good. Similarly I am not anti-Russian. Just anti-D and anti-R in the US.
Yes, the endless war of the autistic male against the rest of society continues. Every once in awhile they get the upper hand (see Chavez/Maduro in Venezuela, Mugabe in Zimbabwe) and they mostly destroy their own societies. Agent provocateurs (GB, US, Russia, China) exploit this chaos for their own ends.
Africa has been colonized since the Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Arabs ... about 3000 years now (aside from Egypt/Ethiopia). Until the last natural and human resource is drained from it, the people all around, like a mother wasp, plant their pupa in the African host, to feed on it.