Call for Chapters

Editor:  Lloyd G. Adu Amoah (University of Ghana, Legon)                                                                                   

Chapter Abstracts Submission Deadline: 07/06/2023

Publisher -Under consideration with Routledge.

Introduction

In the last two decades, Africa-China interactions 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.

While scholars and other interested parties have provided some insights on the nature of Africa-China relations, this edited volume 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, rising debt defaults in Africa and elsewhere, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Artificial Intelligence(AI) race. The Belt and Road Initiative(BRI) must be seen as an added layer of the mode and concerns of this engagement and with it the emergent strident courting of Africa by its hitherto uninterested traditional and older partners, the EU and the US in an attempt to respond and counteract China’s growing presence and influence on the continent. The EU in 2021 responded to the BRI with the Build Back Better(B3W). The 6^th EU-AU Summit was recently held in Brussels in 2022 in what was considered the beginning of a renewed partnership. The Brussel’s meeting launched the Joint Vision 2030 document to guide Africa-Europe interactions. In the same year US president Biden hosted 49 African countries out of which 45 were represented by their presidents and prime-ministers. In the light of these developments, this edited volume seeks through a state-of-the-art approach to open up fresh theoretical, empirical and conceptual paths that question and complicate the stylized and official tropes of Africa-China relations and attempt thereby to unpack the dynamic, shape shifting and complex nature of this relationship.

Themes

The themes for the chapters will be linked but need not be limited to the list below:

Cultural Exchanges and Circulation of artefacts

Resource Financed Infrastructure (RFI)

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

ICT, New Media and Society

Trade, Investment and Commercial Connections

Anti-Black racism and Xenophobia

Architecture and Construction

COVID 19 Impacts

Africans in China

Chinese in Africa

Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC)

People to People Engagement

Unequal Ecological Exchange

Development Finance and New International Financial Institutions such as the Asian Infrastructural Investment Bank (AIIB) and China Development Bank

Submission Procedure

Researchers, academics and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 05, 2023, a 200-300-word chapter abstract clearly outlining the central concerns and thematic focus of their proposed chapter and in particular the methodological approaches and whether or not the work in question will be broadly empirical and/ or theoretical. Authors of accepted proposals will subsequently be notified and invited to submit full chapters and provided chapter and other submission guidelines. Proposals must be accompanied by full contact, affiliations and short bios(150words).

Key Date(s):

Chapter Abstract Deadline: June 07, 2023

Chapter Abstract Acceptance:  August 07, 2023

Full Chapters Submission Deadline: January 31, 2024

Post Review Submissions Deadline: April 30, 2024.
 

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: