 My research investigates Chinese investments in Ethiopia's wind energy infrastructure focusing on Adama-1 and Adama-2 wind farms. In Ethiopia, more than 70% of the 103 million people do not have access to electricity and it is seen in particular by the Ethiopian government that investing in these wind farms will address this challenge. However, I'm not just particularly interested in understanding the investments but I also want to know the structuring of these investments who is involved in brokering these deals, what are the financing terms and conditions, and what is the management and implementation framework of these wind farms. Popular discussions on Chinese involvement in Africa's infrastructure development tend to emphasize that Chinese actually deliver bad infrastructures that is in the case of frauds, that is in case of telecommunication and to some extent even some people suggest that the Chinese actually probing repressive regimes or authoritarian governments in Africa who cannot find aid or who cannot be financed by traditional donor agencies from the western institution. So, discourses suggest that China is basically there to probe these regimes. The other thing which sort of kind of drove me to be researching this topic is again in media discourses Africa is presented as very less agenda in the sense that it is trumped by Chinese interests. Again in the sense that the Chinese tend to dominate the decision making patterns. So by exploring the Ethiopian engagement with the Chinese I'm trying to challenge this thesis or to challenge this discourse which supposes the dominance of the Chinese. Through a field work that I conducted in Ethiopia between 2017 and 2018 the data that I collected upon interviewing Ethiopian government officials, Chinese government officials, Ethiopian enterprises, Chinese enterprises and the local communities where these wind farms are established suggested that the Ethiopian government was in charge of these deals. This comes at the backdrop of existing dominant discourses which suggest that the Africans are less capable, they cannot do anything meaningful, they cannot carve their policy spaces, they cannot control their destiny, they cannot influence the interaction with the external stakeholders. So this research is important in particular in the Ethiopian context because it provides evidence that it is not always the case that Africans are not able to engage meaningfully with external stakeholders.