As Winston Churchill had said, “Never let a crisis go to waste”. While we suffer from setbacks as a result of COVID-19 at different levels, we know that as long as we are alive, we would have to find ways to move forward. In finding ways to move forward and taking Africa along, China bolsters its cooperation with Africa in the first three days of 2021 by launching the nation’s first free trade agreement (with Mauritius after three years of negotiations. Meanwhile, in keeping to its promise made 31 years ago, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting five African nations – Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania and Seychelles.