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African Studies Quarterly African Studies Quarterly Volume 17, Issue 4 February 2018 Special Issue China- Africa Relations: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on African “Migrants” in China Guest Editor: Agnes Ngoma Leslie Published by the Center for African Studies, University of Florida ISSN: 2152-2448 African Studies Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 4| February 2018 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq African Studies Quarterly Executive Staff R. Hunt Davis, Jr. - Editor-in-Chief Todd H. Leedy - Associate Editor Fezile Mtsetfwa - Managing Editor Nyokabi Maingi - Book Review Editor Editorial Committee Ben Burgen Ciara McLaren Elizabeth A. Carey Chesney McOmber Jessica Casimir Leandre Merz Megan Cogburn Anne Mook Amanda Edgell Collins Nunyonameh Dan Eizenga Martin Nwodo Ndubuisi Ezeluomba Riley Ravary Max Gelber Audrey Smith C ady Gonzalez Benjamin Smith Ryan Good Sarah Staub Eric Lake Felicity Tackey-Otoo Jordan Mackenzie Joel Wao Advisory Board Adélékè Adéèko Richard Marcus Ohio State University California State University, Long Beach Timothy Ajani Kelli Moore Fayetteville State University James Madison University Abubakar Alhassan Mantoa Rose Motinyane Bayero University University of Cape Town John W. Arthur James T. Murphy University of South Florida, St. Clark University Petersburg Lilian Temu Osaki Nanette Barkey University of Dar es Salaam Pact International Dianne White Oyler Susan Cooksey Fayetteville State University University of Florida Alex Rödlach Mark Davidheiser Creighton University Nova Southeastern University Jan Shetler Kristin Davis Goshen College International Food Policy Research Roos Willems Institute Catholic University of Leuven Parakh Hoon Peter VonDoepp Saint Martin’s University University of Vermont Andrew Lepp Kent State University African Studies Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 4| February 2018 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq © University of Florida Board of Trustees, a public corporation of the State of Florida; permission is hereby granted for individuals to download articles for their own personal use. Published by the Center for African Studies, University of Florida. African Studies Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 4| February 2018 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq Table of Contents Articles Introduction - China-Africa Relations: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on African “Migrants” in China Agnes Ngoma Leslie (1-4) African Students in China: Research, Reality, and Reflection Li Anshan (5-44) From Pioneers to Professionals: African Brokers in a Maturing Chinese Marketplace Heidi Østbo Haugen (45-62) The Bridge is not Burning Down: Transformation and Resilience within China’s African Diaspora Communities Adams Bodomo (63-84) Transient: A Descriptive Concept for Understanding Africans in Guangzhou Dong Niu (85-100) Review Essays Recaptive Africans and U.S. Émigrés: Creating Communities and Journeying to Africa in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World Evan C. Rothera (101-106) The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Southern Africa: Cases from Mozambique and Zimbabwe Clement Masakure (107-114) Book Reviews Semahagn Gashu Abebe. 2014. The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation: Ethnicity, Ideology and Democracy in Ethiopia. London: Routledge. 298 pp. Review by Berihun Adugna Gebeye (115-116) Tolu Babatunde Afolabi. 2017. The Politics of Peacemaking in Africa: Non-State Actors’ Role in the Liberian Civil war. London, U.K. James Currey. 203 pp. Review by Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor (116-117) Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Michael Johnson, and Hiroyuki Takeshima. 2016. The Nigerian Rice Economy: Policy Options for Transforming Production, Marketing, and Trade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Xiv 300 pp. Review by John Olushola Magbadelo (118-119) African Studies Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 4| February 2018 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq Barbara Casciarri, Munzoul Assal, and François Ireton (eds.). 2015. Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011): Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities. Oxford: Berghahn. 374 pp. Review by Stefano Turrini (119-120) Mark Dike DeLancey. 2016. Conquest and Construction: Palace Architecture in Northern Cameroon. Boston: Brill. 298 pp. Review by Syprien Christian Zogo (121-122) Toyin Falola. 2016. Nigerian Political Modernity and Postcolonial Predicaments. Austin, Texas: Pan African University Press. 480 pp. Review by Victor Jatula (122-123) Debra Faszer-McMahon and Victoria L. Ketz (eds.). 2015. African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts: Crossing the Strait. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 282 pp. Review by Anenechukwu Kevin Amoke (123-125) Pamela Felman-Savelsverg. 2016. Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 243 pp. Review by Olagbenro (Ola) Oladipo (125-126) Linda Heywood. 2017. Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 320 pp. Review by Heather Jordan (126-128) Vincent Hiribarren. 2017. A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State. New York: Oxford University Press. 311 pp. Review by Olivier J. Walther (128-129) Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2016. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 282 pp. Review by Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem (129-131) Gaim Kibreab. 2017. The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for ‘the Common Good’ and the Youth Exodus. Rochester: James Currey Press. 207 pp. Review by Dawit Woldu (131-132) Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Michael Mwenda Kithinji, and Jerono P. Rotich (eds.). 2016. Kenya After 50: Reconfiguring Education, Gender and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan. 265 pp. Review by Sheila N. Maingi (133-134) Bea Lundt and Christopher Marx (Eds.). 2016. Kwame Nkrumah, 1909-1972: A Controversial Visionary. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 208 pp. Review by Kenneth Wilburn (134-136) African Studies Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 4| February 2018 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq Chérie Rivers Ndaliko. 2016. Necessary Noise: Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo. New York: Oxford University Press. Xiv + 285 pp. Review by Jeremy Rich (136-137) Holly Porter. 2017. After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda. London: International African Institute and Cambridge University Press. 255 pp. Review by Sverker Finnström (138-139) Steven Press. 2017. Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 371 pp. Review by Adel Manai (139-140) Richard Reid. 2017. A History of Modern Uganda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 403 pp. Review by Jonathon L. Earle (140-142) Ksenia Robbe. 2015. Conversations of Motherhood: South African Women’s Writing Across Traditions. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 317 pp. Review by Heidi Barends (142-143) Robert I. Rotberg. 2017. The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 384 pp. Review by Benson Ohihon Igboin (143-145) Lamin Sanneh. 2016. Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam. New York: Oxford University Press. 376 pp. Review by Dauda Abubakar (145-146) John Saul and Patrick Bond. 2014. South Africa: The Present as History from Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. 312 pp. Review by Claire-Anne Lester (147-148) Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha. 2016. The Spirit of Marikana. The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa. London: Pluto Press. 208 pp. Review by Seroala Tsoeu-Ntokoane (148-149) Z. S. Strother. 2016. Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art. Bloomington and Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. 344 pp. Review by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann (149-151) Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins. 2017. A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 280 pp. Review by Brad Crofford (151-152) African Studies Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 4| February 2018 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq Theodore Trefon. 2016. Congo’s Environmental Paradox: Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty. London: Zed Books. 194 pp. Review by Uchendu Eugene Chigbu (152-153) Harry Villegas. 2017. Cuba and Angola: The War for Freedom. Edited by Martín Koppel and Mary- Alice Waters. New York: Pathfinder Press. 121 pp. Review by Perseverence Muguti (153-155) Tom Young (ed.). 2015. Readings in the International Relations of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 370 pp. Review by Sankalp Gurjar (155-156) African Studies Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 4| February 2018 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq African Studies Quarterly | Volume 17, Issue 4|February 2018 Introduction China-Africa Relations: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on African “Migrants” in China AGNES NGOMA LESLIE Introduction This is a special issue of the African Studies Quarterly, and the second issue of this publication devoted entirely to China-Africa relations. The first issue examined China and Africa’s political and economic relationships and media strategies. Ten invited scholars examined the major issues in this relationship, at multiple levels, from medium and small businesses to petty traders. The themes examined included the role of African agency in China-Africa discourse; micro-practices embedded in China’s foreign policy towards Africa; the capacity and challenges faced by African states in their efforts to moderate that relationship; and how African states have shaped this engagement. The issue (Vol. 16, Issue 3-4, December 2016) was titled: “China- Africa Relations: Political and Economic Engagement
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