African nations needs its own growth model

Leading South African academic Garth Shelton says many of those who criticize China's role in Africa do so because they are not interested in facts.

The professor of international relations at the University of Witwatersrand insists even those in the academic community fail to do proper research.

"There is a paradigm or framework for thinking out there. A lot of scholars automatically attach themselves to this idea that the China-Africa relationship has negative consequences for Africa.