Prof. Dr. Arndt Graf is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Since 2013 he is also Speaker (with Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler) of the research project AFRASO (Africa's Asian Options) funded by the German Ministry of Higher Education and Research. AFRASO involves 40 colleagues from a broad variety of disciplines. Azirah Hashim is professor of English linguistics and Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute at the University of Malaya.

• Introduction Arndt Graf and Azirah Hashim Part I: Outbound-Inbound: Observations from West Africa In Constant Search for Money to Survive: African Youths in Malaysia Ute Röschenthaler Local Stakeholders' Perceptions on Asian Preponderance within the Cameroon's Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Diderot Nguepjouo and Jürgen Runge Part II: The 'Chinese' Factor Does New Sino-African Cooperation Create New Dependencies? The Case of Higher Education Falk Hartig Beyond the State in Sino-African Relations? Reflections on Civil Society Interactions Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel A Case Study on the Vietnamese-Chinese Migration Industry in Angola André Gröger and Jürgen Klump Part III: Africa's Other Asian Options South-South Cooperation Strategies in Indonesia: Domestic and International Drivers Susan Engel South Korean Civic Actors in Rwanda: Promoting Rural Development and an Emerging Civil Society in Contexts Controlled by the State Wiebe Nauta and Tae-Joo-Lee Enhancing Asia-Africa Relations through Futher Discourse on Mobility of Africans to Peripheral Asian Countries: Outcome of Exploratory Studies from the Philippines Satwinder S. Rehal