Africa-China Relations

Name: Africa-China Relations
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Partnership, Peonage or Pawnage?

Lloyd G. Adu Amoah

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
29 January 2026

Globalization; International relations; International economics

This book examines Africa-China interactions, which over the last two decades have deepened across a range of areas notably politics, economics, trade, diplomacy, culture, construction, security, and ICT. The setting up of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) in 2000 has provided the main institutional and organizational ballast for Africa-China interactions. This book seeks to critically (re)examine, extend and add to the literature by taking a fresh look at Africa-China entanglements in the light of emergent and new realities in the international political economy such as the impact of COVID 19 on national economies and indeed the global economy , rising debt defaults in Africa and elsewhere, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race, the re-emergence of big power rivalry, and the Belt and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in particular must be seen as an added layer of the mode and concerns of Africa-China relations which is specifically the matter of infrastructure. The BRI seems to have triggered as well an emergent strident courting of Africa by its hitherto uninterested traditional and older partners, the EU and the US, in an attempt to respond to and counteract China’s growing presence and influence on the continent. This book should be of interest to scholars of international relations, Africa-Asia studies, researchers, policymakers, activists and indeed the curious non-specialist reader.

Edited by: Lloyd G. Adu Amoah
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Singapore
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9789819543694
ISBN 10: 981954369X
Pages: 333
Publication Date: 29 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Africa-China Ties: Lifting the Veil through Three Themes.- 2. China in Africa: A Sub-Imperialist Power?.- 3. Deconstructing ‘Chinese’ Debt Trap Diplomacy in Africa-China Relations.- 4. Chinese finance for African infrastructure: Credit enhancements as means for doing business or politics?.- 5. From the University of African Future to the Museum of Black Civilizations: Imagined and Constructed Visions of Africa-China Relations.- 6. Is it really about China? Heterogeneous actor configurations in Chinese infrastructure projects in Africa.- 7. Projects and polls: Chinese infrastructural engagement and African political cycles.- 8. Trading natural resources for infrastructure: A Sustainable Approach to Financing Africa’s infrastructure Gap?.- 9. Digital Infrastructure and Sino-African Relations: Chinese ICT companies and African agency.- 10. China-Africa agricultural cooperation and the promises of modernization.- 11. Mediterranean Africa, China and the European Union.- 12. The Ecological Implications of Africa-China Partnership in the Extractive Sectors of Africa: Lessons from Ghana.- 13. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the “Green Turn” in Africa.- 14. Conclusion: W(h)ither Africa-China relations?.

Lloyd G. Adu Amoah is the Founding and Inaugural Director of the Centre for Asian Studies (CAS) as well as an Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, at the University of Ghana. A product of the University of Ghana and Wuhan University (where he earned his doctorate), he has travelled extensively throughout Asia visiting, researching, teaching, presenting papers and giving talks in some of the leading countries on the continent such as China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Macau. He has worked on major projects with some of Asia's leading international organizations such as Korea International Cooperation Agency(KOICA), Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA), Korea Foundation and Japan Foundation.