Neoliberalism, Militarization and Shifting Geopolitics in Africa

Pádraig Carmody - Professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Author of The New Scramble for Africa, 2nd, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2016, co-author of Africa's Shadow Rise: China and the Mirage of African Economic Development, London, Zed Books, among others including a range of recent journal articles on Africa-China relations, BRICS and impacts of COVID 19 in Africa, including recently "China's Spatial Fix and 'Debt Diplomacy' in Africa", in the Canadian Journal of African Studies, co-authored with Ian Taylor and Tim Zajontz.
Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is the author of Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone (2012), which won the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award for 2013, and co-editor (with Marta Iñiguez de Heredia) of Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (2018). His forthcoming book with Routledge interrogates the contaminating vectors of the colonial archive and its implications for epistemic decolonisation, titled; Thinking the Colonial Library: Mudimbe, Gnosis, and the Predicament of Africanist Knowledge

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