Discourses on China’s growing influence in Africa can be categorized into two groups—namely, the dominant/Western narrative that warns Africans to be wary and the emergent/Chinese narrative that encourages Africans to be accommodating of this relationship. What then is the view of Africans to China’s rising influence on the continent? This article contends that what Africans think has not been given much thought in extant literature, hence the need to build an alternative narrative. Taking this approach provides an indigenous perspective to China’s rapprochement with security in Africa. This article concludes that China’s security ventures in
Africa have had noticeable benefits for the continent, but there is need for Africa’s governments to be cautious.