Abstract
In this essay, I seek to examine how foreign aid conditionality linked to political reforms and promotion of democracy and human rights is being abused by multilateral institutions and donor countries to systematically and structurally weaken and destroy domestic governance in recipient countries, in the name of participation and country ownership. In the meanwhile, given the limitations of foreign aid conditionality, a different kind of aid discourse is re-emerging at the behest of China based on her ‘no strings attached’ approach to human rights and governance in Africa.3 In the latter part of the essay, I shall critically examine the rise of China in Africa, which is in part triggered by the failure of the current regime of aid and political conditionality
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