Trading Away Development? A Critical Interrogation of Nigeria-China Trade Relations (2015–2024)

This study critically examines Nigeria–China trade relations and their developmental implications between 2015 and 2024. Persistent concerns over Nigeria’s widening trade deficit, reliance on crude oil and primary commodities, and the growing dominance of Chinese manufactured imports frame the analysis. Grounded in dependency theory, which explains unequal economic interactions between core and…