Aware that the place and role of China in sub-Saharan Africa have been the realm of "buzz" for several years now, and that there is still a lack of detailed analysis of the realities of Chinese presence in Africa in terms of ethnography, most researchers sometimes prefer to stick to fairly general ideas that lead them to take shelter behind the quotations of those who have gone before them without seeking to verify the robustness of their writings; This book offers an analysis that runs counter to the propagation of rumours and the peddling of rumours that, by dint of being printed, become commonplaces and self-evident truths that are never questioned.