African Engagements -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures, Tables and Maps -- 1. African engagements: On whose terms? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world -- PART I NEW TRENDS AND TENDENCIES IN AFRICA -- 2. Trends in transnational political engagement in Africa: The promises of NEPAD -- 3. Political topographies of private security in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 4. The neoliberalisation of nature in Africa -- 5. Foreign land acquisitions in Madagascar: Competing jurisdiction of access claims -- 6. Mobilising Brazil as 'significant other' in the fight for HIV/Aids treatment in South Africa: The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and its global allies -- 7. Beyond negotiating a multipolar world: Sudan's non-Western development cooperation alternative -- PART II FRAMING MULTIPOLARITY -- 8. How does the Chinese involvement in the African continent affect African sovereignty in the context of the changing nature of power? -- 9. China into Africa: Conflict or the triumph of Western order? -- 10. Railway time: Technology transfer and the role of Chinese experts in the history of TAZARA -- 11. China-Africa relations: The relevance of strategic engagement of African civil society organisations with China -- 12. New topographies of power? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world -- 13. The Obama administration's engagements in Africa within historical context: Great expectations versus daunting challenges -- PART III NEW SPACE FOR AFRICAN ENGAGEMENTS? -- 14. Public policy formation in Africa in the wake of the global financial meltdown: Building blocks for a New Mind in a multipolar world -- 15. Aligning and harnessing the gains of globalisation to an African advantage: Towards 'glo-fricanisation' -- 16. Africa in the world: A historical view -- List of contributors -- Index.