一般驗證中國對非洲友誼，都是以中國人在非洲大陸的援助行為當範例，但是當場景轉為非洲人到中國大陸接受援助，可能會得出完全不同的答案。本文將以1962年非洲學生集體絕食抗議的事件為核心，回顧歷史上非洲人在中國人心中的地位，探討1949年後對非洲人的態度如何受政策與資本主義影響，並藉此檢驗中國官學界常稱道的非洲兄弟情。

Scholars rely on Chinese aid projects to Africa to demonstrate the former’s kindness towards the latter, but the picture changes when we investigate the assistance to Africans living on the Chinese mainland. By focusing on the African students’ hunger strike in Beijing in 1962, this paper revisits images of Africa in Chinese history, studies how Chinese attitudes toward Africa have evolved with policies and capitalism since 1949, and reanalyzes the Sino-African brotherhood that Chinese officials and scholars highly praise.