for more on the summit i'm joined by dr colby mensah he is an african political strategist based at the university of ghana and he joins me now from across welcome to you dr ments of the attendance to this summit has been remarkable what do you make of that. thank you and thanks for having me well i think that the increasingly the african leaders are actually you know feeling some kind of threat from the youth bulge of course most of the issues that confront the continent hadn't been solved despite the common in of the chinese and so that actually present a threat to most of these leaders and as a result they're looking for solutions they realize that the chinese model is actually no work in especially for all the most confronted issues which is unemployment so they're looking for solutions and therefore perhaps they're feeling that maybe russia could actually offer them other alternative from the chinese model document that you have mentioned the chinese but what we often hear from african leaders is they feel as though the chinese treat them as equal partners in comparison to the west