AFRICANGLOBE - Jim O’Neill, former head of economics at Goldman Sachs, once calculated that China created an economy the size of Greece every three months. Between 2012 and 2013, China’s economy grew by $1 trillion, from $8.2 trillion to 9.2 trillion. We apply the same calculation for African countries using data from the World Bank, and see how long China takes to create economies equivalent to African countries’