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.

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.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: African State AgencyChapter 1: China-Africa Trade Patterns: Causes, Consequences, and PerceptionsJoshua EisenmanChapter 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Agency-as-corruption and the Sino-Nigerian RelationshipIan TaylorChapter 3: China and the Shaping of African Information SocietiesIginio GagliardoneChapter 4: Understanding Angolan Agency: The Luanda-Beijing Face-off Lucy CorkinChapter 5: Ethiopia: Towards a Foreign Funded 'Revolutionary Democracy'Aleksandra W GadzalaPart II: African Agency Beyond the StateChapter 6: Making Space for African Agency in China-Africa Engagements: Ghanaian and Nigerian Patrons Shaping Chinese EnterpriseBen Lampert and Giles MohanChapter 7: Racialization as Agency in Zambia-China RelationsBarry SautmanChapter 8: #MadeinAfrica: How China-Africa relations take on new meaning thanks to digital communicationMark Kaigwa and Yu-Shan WuChapter 9: Afro-Chinese Cooperation: The

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.

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.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: African State AgencyChapter 1: China-Africa Trade Patterns: Causes, Consequences, and PerceptionsJoshua EisenmanChapter 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Agency-as-corruption and the Sino-Nigerian RelationshipIan TaylorChapter 3: China and the Shaping of African Information SocietiesIginio GagliardoneChapter 4: Understanding Angolan Agency: The Luanda-Beijing Face-off Lucy CorkinChapter 5: Ethiopia: Towards a Foreign Funded 'Revolutionary Democracy'Aleksandra W GadzalaPart II: African Agency Beyond the StateChapter 6: Making Space for African Agency in China-Africa Engagements: Ghanaian and Nigerian Patrons Shaping Chinese EnterpriseBen Lampert and Giles MohanChapter 7: Racialization as Agency in Zambia-China RelationsBarry SautmanChapter 8: #MadeinAfrica: How China-Africa relations take on new meaning thanks to digital communicationMark Kaigwa and Yu-Shan WuChapter 9: Afro-Chinese Cooperation: The