africa investment summit jones and co for britain to be their investment partner of choice he highlighted deals worth billions of pounds in which british companies are providing anything and everything from smart street lighting in nigeria to environmentally friendly breweries in kenya but british trade with africa is only 2 percent of its total and britons way behind china dozens more african presidents attended the last china africa summit all the gatherings russia holds with the continent. so well let's have a close look at how the u.k. sizes up to other economies when it comes to trade with africa it was far behind the confidence biggest 3 trading partners the european union china and the united states with just a fraction of total e.u. trade with africa and 2018 still with $19000000000.00 in official development united kingdom has been one of the leading contributors of development funding of which africa gets a big chunk it was 2nd only to germany and the city of london is the most significant financial center for african businesses outside the continent more than 100 african compan