Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-1-4422-3775-9 • Hardback • September 2015 • $119.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-78660-656-3 • Paperback • December 2017 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
978-1-4422-3776-6 • eBook • September 2015 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Editor:
Aleksandra W. Gadzala is a Research Analyst at responsAbility Investments AG, and an Africa Region contributor to Oxford Analytica.
Contributors:
Lucy Corkin works at Rand Merchant Bank, a South African investment bank, and is a Research Associate of the Africa-Asia Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Joshua Eisenman is assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs and senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) in Washington, DC.
Iginio Gagliardone is British Academy Research Fellow and a member of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford.
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School.
Mark Kaigwa is a consultant, technologist and blogger based in Nairobi, Kenya and a recognized leader in Africa's emerging media industry.
Giles Mohan is Professor of International Development at the UK’s Open University.
Barry Sautman is a political scientist and lawyer at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.
Ian Taylor is Professor in International Relations and African Politics at St Andrews and also Chair Professor in the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China.
Yu-Shan Wu is a full-time researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part I: African State Agency
Chapter 1: China-Africa Trade Patterns: Causes, Consequences, and Perceptions
Joshua Eisenman
Chapter 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Agency-as-corruption and the Sino-Nigerian Relationship
Ian Taylor
Chapter 3: China and the Shaping of African Information Societies
Iginio Gagliardone
Chapter 4: Understanding Angolan Agency: The Luanda-Beijing Face-off
Lucy Corkin
Chapter 5: Ethiopia: Towards a Foreign Funded 'Revolutionary Democracy'
Aleksandra W Gadzala
Part II: African Agency Beyond the State
Chapter 6: Making Space for African Agency in China-Africa Engagements: Ghanaian and Nigerian Patrons Shaping Chinese Enterprise
Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan
Chapter 7: Racialization as Agency in Zambia-China Relations
Barry Sautman
Chapter 8: #MadeinAfrica: How China-Africa relations take on new meaning thanks to digital communication
Mark Kaigwa and Yu-Shan Wu
Chapter 9: Afro-Chinese Cooperation: The Evolution of Diplomatic Agency
Calestous Juma
Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index
After engaging with the chapters of Africa and China…the reader will be hard pressed to maintain the stereotyped image of Chinese agency and African passivity. There is almost a sense of empathy evoked toward the Chinese side engaging in such complex and often difficult terrain. The book clearly sets out what it intends to achieve – namely that the role of Chinese actors on the continent needs to be grasped analytically within the varying regional and national contexts in which they operate. The strong empirical evidence provided for this argument demonstrates that this is not merely an exercise in polemical inversion – but rather an intractable reality that should be heeded by investors, policy-makers and academics alike.
— South African Journal of International Affairs
This is a wonderful collection of work by accomplished scholars in the China-Africa field who properly put the focus on Africa. The book makes the case for African agency as the continent increases its interaction with China.
— David Shinn, co-author of China and Africa: A Century of Engagement
Africa and China makes an important analytical contribution to a set of consequential issues that remain poorly understood. Gadzala and the chapter authors make a convincing case that Africans are no mere passive observers to China’s growing activities on the continent, but rather they are active shapers of the trends—and ultimately responsible for the economic and political effects.
— Todd Moss, Center for Global Development and author, African Development: Making Sense of The Issues and Actors
This is a significant contribution to the study of China-Africa relations by some of the most noted experts in the field, cutting through many clichés and providing a genuinely nuanced understanding of actor agendas, especially on the African side. Invaluable reading for anyone interested in this key dynamic in the domestic politics and external relations of Africa as it enters its second decade.
— Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, University of Oxford
Aleksandra Gadzala’s new edited volume puts African agency at the center of its analysis of the China-Africa engagement. These chapters have intellectual heft, careful scholarship, and vivid writing. A collection to read carefully, learn from, and savor.
— Deborah Bräutigam,, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Director of the SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)