Immediate and Long-Term Impacts of Africa – China Trade Intensity on Poverty Incidence in Africa

China remains a key international player in Africa, contributing much more than other countries to the trade and capital inflows to Africa. How these inflows have contributed to the prevailing poverty incidences and severity in Africa remain an empirical issue. The study investigated the short and long-run impact of Africa-China trade relations on poverty incidences using data from 1990 to 2017 for 20 African countries. To capture the linkage, the standard endogenous growth model was remodified to link poverty to trade between the selected African countries and China. The model was estimated using the dynamic and fully modified OLS techniques after establishing the time-series properties of the variables. The result of the analysis showed that the increased trade intensity between Africa and China has been beneficial to Africa and the evidence also confirmed that it is sustainable even in the long run. Export despite its meager size was a more significant contributor to poverty reduction than imports in the long run. It was also established that increased per capita income has greater significant impacts on poverty reduction in the long run. However, household final consumption expenditure was a major setback to poverty reduction in Africa both in the short and long run, Indeed, not only it aggravates poverty, it overwhelmed the alleviating potentials of both trade intensity and increase per capita income. The policy implication of the result is that better trade policy for increased exportation and increased domestic productivity in Africa are necessary for more improved efficiency of local production and increased per capita income over a long period