Includes bibliographical references and index.

Destination Africa : contemporary Africa as a centre of global encounter / Mayke Kaag, Guive Khan-Mohammad and Stefan Schmid -- Indian educators in Ethiopa : from 'brothers in faith' to 'commercial recruits' / Sophia Thubauville -- Dilemmas of egalitarianism : development workers from the two German states and inequalities in socialist Tanzania / Eric Burton -- New actors in Africa's higher education landscape : Malaysia's branch campuses and their motivation to enter the African market / Alexandra Samokhvalova -- Leadership, Danwei, and asymmetrical attentiveness : work relations at a Chinese educational farm in Zambia / Di Wu -- Hierarchies of values and Asian consumer goods in Cameroon / Ute Röschenthaler -- 'KAAY FECC!' (Come dance!) Economic, cultural and emotional flows in sabar dance tourism (Senegal -- Europe) / Alice Aterianus-Owanga -- Estamos Juntos E Misturados! Intercultural translation between Mozambican and Brazilian students / Miriam Ocadiz Arriaga -- Chinese motorcycle companies in Burkina Faso : a success subject to African agency / Guive Khan-Mohammad -- Lions Clubs in Africa : a Travelling model and its appropriation for the creation of a Pan-African network / Jean Frédéric de Hasque -- Cameroon's Kribi Deep Seaport construction project : between state ownership and tendencies of extraversion / Fabien Nkot and Gérard Amaugou.

This work challenges received ideas of Africa as a marginal continent and place of exodus by considering the continent as a centre of global connectivity and confluence. Flows of people, goods, and investments towards Africa have increased and diversified over recent decades. In light of these changes, the contributions analyse new actors in such diverse fields as education, trade, infrastructure, and tourism. They show the historicity of many current mobilities towards Africa and investigate questions of agency and power in shaping encounters between Africans and others in Africa today. In this way, the volume contributes significantly to debates on Africa's position in global mobility dynamics and provides a firm basis for further research. Contributors are: Gérard Amougou, Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Eric Burton, Jean-Frédéric de Hasque, Mayke Kaag, Guive Khan-Mohammad, Fabien Nkot, Miriam Adelina Ocadiz Arriaga, Ute Röschenthaler, Alexandra Samokhvalova, Stefan Schmid, Sophia Thubauville, Di Wu.

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