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"""Africa's Global Infrastructures is a most welcome and timely book, with a high level of expertise and critical insight into the current state of Africa. A significant contribution to African studies, political science, global studies, environmental social sciences, peace and development."" -- Ruy Blanes, Associate Professor, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg ""Rejecting sweeping generalisations and simple binaries of South-South cooperation, this book adopts a nuanced, empirically grounded approach to exploring Africa's multiple entanglements with external actors through the prism of infrastructure projects."" -- Karen Smith, Leiden University and the University of Cape Town, and co-editor of International Relations from the Global South ""This superbly written book unpacks the multiple levels of global and local interactions in South-South relations like no other. It radically analyses Africa's place in ongoing changes, including the transnational processes, technologies, models and practices underpinning a new international relations."" -- Cyril Obi, Program Director for the African Peacebuilding Network, Social Science Research Council, and co-editor of The Rise of China and India in Africa ""An excellent collection transcending the narrow reading of Southern powers' engagement in Africa's infrastructure via its impacts on the liberal international order. It provides innovative and empirically rich insights into the breadth of the trans-scalar entanglements that constitute South-South relations, foregrounding African agency."" -- Shahar Hameiri, Professor in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, and co-author of Fractured China: How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise"

"""Africa's Global Infrastructures is a most welcome and timely book, with a high level of expertise and critical insight into the current state of Africa. A significant contribution to African studies, political science, global studies, environmental social sciences, peace and development."" -- Ruy Blanes, Associate Professor, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg"

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Jana Honke is a professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bayreuth. Eric Cezne is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. Yifan Yang is a PhD candidate in African Studies at the University of Bayreuth.

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