International Relations and Discourses of Africa's Non-Fulfilment: Bringing Africa Back-in

2017 | History & Politics

This bold and innovative book responds to an existing demand to take Africa out of a place of exception and marginality and place it at the centre of international relations and world politics. Staging a critical intervention into the ways Africa is theorised and its realities accounted for in the dominant discourses of world politics and international relations, it foregrounds three interrelated problematiques: First, to understand how and why the continent's experiences are still reproduced in the language of lack, crisis and failure; Second, to explore possibilities of rethinking Africa for world politics; and third, to concretely demonstrate the centrality of the continent as a major constitutive site of world politics and global power. Bringing together a number of scholars from various locations and disciplinary backgrounds, the book foregrounds a number of issues central to discourses of international relations and world politics and the ways they account for Africa's experience with and place in the international/global.

This text will be of key interest to scholar and students of African Politics, African Studies, Development Studies and more broadly to international relations and area studies.

Marta Iniguez de Heredia (Author)

Zubairu Wai (Author)