China is currently at the top of the Global Automobile industry, it has everyone in a chokehold and is yet to release its grip.

Being at a turning point in its economic growth as it advances towards becoming a fully modernised global economy with all sectors covering high-value manufacturing like aircraft, semiconductors, highspeed electric trains and modern electrified vehicles, China is not yet to relax its grip until the made in China 2025 strategy started by President Xi Jinping is pushed all the way through with a victory lap.

Regardless of how this is looked at, it is bound to bring many benefits to the global south including Africa; the transfer of modern vehicle technology to global south countries at lower costs as was done with the democratization of mobile phones which China 🇨🇳 did very well.

Additionally, there will be decentralized manufacturing of automobiles which has for long been a monopoly of Western countries who have made huge profits off the global south markets, improving their lives at the expense of the rest of the world which had been turned into a dumping ground for their products.

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We are now bound to see smaller countries begin to manufacture or assemble these technologies. Countries like China, India, Turkey, Morocco, Vietnam, Uganda, Nigeria, Botswana, South Africa etc are now in on the money and technologies in one way or another.

This is ultimately good for the world economy as wealth will be redistributed across the globe.

For Africa, this calls for a unified and shared approach to manufacturing by indigenous African Automobile manufacturers like Kiira Motors Corporation from Uganda, Innoson Motors From Nigeria, and Kantanka Automobile Company from Ghana.

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The need to produce at Scale, and with extreme speed has never been this pertinent. Yet the opening up of the African Market not through rhetoric but with the construction of a unified railway platform as well as an integrated communications platform remains the only way of giving African Automobile manufacturers a chance at global competitiveness. Like China 🇨🇳, by succeeding in a large market at home, these and other products manufacturers will succeed at home first before seeking external markets.

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If we are to be forward-looking enough, Africa’s competition now and in the future is to be found with China and India.

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Reference:
https://africa.businessinsider.com/transportation/chinas-ev-giants-shine-at-europes-largest-auto-show-while-local-rivals-despair/mmfg1xg