"It's competition! Everyone wants to cooperate with Africa because it is an important continent," said Dr. Mensah.
"So Europe, the United States, China, India, Turkey and of course Russia have their place in international cooperation with Africa," he said. "However, it is up to the African countries to decide on the level of this cooperation and their benefits."
"There are agreements with Russia on the educational level, since Russia and the Soviet Union are currently training and have trained in the past [respectively], thousands of African executives, for decades! Long before the fall of the Soviet Union, many African executives were trained in the Soviet space, not only in Russia, but in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, on Soviet territory," noted the expert.