Francis Onditi is head of department of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Riara University.Gilad Ben Nun is senior researcher at Leipzig University's Center for Area Studies.Cristina D'Alessandro is senior fellow at the Center on Governance at the University of Ottawa.Zach Levey is associate professor and chair of the Department of International Relations at the University of Haifa.

Many essays, books, and studies covering the continent of Africa focus on the past, yet editors Francis Onditi, Gilad Ben-nun, Cristina D’Alessandro, and Zach Levey organize a forward-looking anthology analyzing important political, geopolitical, ethical, theoretical, and practical issues facing the continent while avoiding simplistic afro-pessimism and afro-optimism dichotomies. . . . The best essays take a clear-eyed view of the challenges facing countries on the continent, while applying careful analysis regarding solutions and opportunities. . . . Overall, this collection features many strong chapters addressing issues with which the continent and world will soon grapple. . . the essays advance important arguments that could shape future discourse.

• Chapter 1: Rethinking the New World Order and Its Implications for AfricaChapter 2: Africa and the Remaking of Global OrderChapter 3: Towards a New Peace and Security Agenda: Contributions from Pan Africanism Chapter 4: The AU’s New Funding Mechanisms: Self-Financing at Last? Chapter 5: Can the African Union Innovate in Conflict Prevention? Evidence from Mediation and Preventing and Countering Violent ExtremismChapter 6: Antidotes to Extremism: Africa’s Refugee Hospitality ParadigmChapter 7: Relational African Values between Nations: Bringing Communion to the Global OrderChapter 8: Between Atavism and Modernity: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Strained Relationship with ConstitutionalismChapter 9: Another Round of Plunder? China, Africa and International Politics through the Lens of the Mugabe Government, c.2000 to 2016Chapter 10: How “Organized Hypocrisy” within the Standby Force is pulling Africa from the global influenceChapter 11: Balance of Power and the 2017 African Union Commission ElectionsChapter 12: Hydropolitics of Resource Exploration in Eastern AfricaChapter 13: Politics of Oil in Eastern Africa: Does it present another Geopolitical Pivot?Chapter 14: State-Led Development in Ethiopia: A Failing Legacy or an Existential Threat to the Nation?Chapter 15: Regime Construction and Sustainable Stability in the Nile Basin: The East African Community Multilateral Diplomacy in a Theoretical ContextChapter 16: The Future of Kiswahili is Bright: The Potential of East Africa’s Lingua Franca in the Emerging World OrderChapter 17: Kenya’s National Security and International Refugee Law in the Dynamic World OrderChapter 18: Can the “African Centrered Journalism” Contain the Terror threats in the New World Order?Chapter 19: African Foreign Policy Making in the African Union: Peace and Security Chapter 20: Kenya’s Foreign Policy (2013-2017) and African RenaissanceChapter 21: The Making of ‘Gender Diplomacy’ as a Foreign Policy Pillar in Kenya and Namibia