Glazebrook offers a succinct analysis of the historical situation that led up to the West's violent attacks on Libya. I don't fully agree with the role he assigns to China and his not paying attention to the serious economic, political and cultural changes that must take place to lead to authentic African development. But a useful debating piece
I take issue with the role assigned to China in Africa's development because there does not seem to be any change in the political, economic and intellectual mindsets that should accompany the replacing of the West with China--in terms of infrastructural development, etc.
For example, there is still this confounded belief on the part of most African governments that Euro-America offers real solutions to problems of development despite decades of exploitation and political chicanery by the U.S., Britain and France, especially.
The IMF, World Bank, etc. are still hegemonic in Africa and France still has a strange and inexplicable stranglehold on its ex-colonies. And again the vast majority of African governments are just dumb to the fact that Obama has been a big disaster for the African continent and clearly a clever plus for those in the West who selected him for the job.