Analysis of Africa's Global Relations

The book analyses how Africans and Africa relate to other parts of the multilateral world, and to the world in general, and how these relations stem from local, national and regional interactions in different parts of Africa, as well as Africa as a whole.

Part One: Understanding Africa on the Global Stage

The first part focuses on the assumptions that are necessary to understand the role of Africa on the global stage, especially from the perspectives of political philosophy and global and international studies.

Part Two: Afropolitan Trends and Limits

The second part of the book looks at both Afropolitan trends and the limits of Afropolitanism.

Part Three: Local Conditions and Global Tendencies

In the third part the authors focus on specific African global tendencies stemming from the local conditions in several case studies. Traditional and modern politics is connected, problematically, with the current Jihadist organisations in the local African conditions related to unilateralism and global war on terror, for example.

Part Four: Language and Global Interactions

The fourth part deals with the relevance of the language ambivalence in relation to global interactions. It examines various views of African philosophy and lays bare the perception of earlier colonial languages in view of their current strength of global action.

Intended Audience

This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, political philosophy, politics and global studies.