SAJIA Volume 30.1 covers an array of diverse topics, including an open access article by Mzukisi Qobo and Mjumo Mzyece exploring geopolitics, tech wars, and global supply chains and their implications for Africa. Another article by Jo-Ansie van Wyk looks at the diplomacy of normalisation between South Africa and Rwanda. Other articles focus on the development trajectories of mediation support structures in Africa, on African agency and Chinese debt negotiations, Nigeria’s economic relations with China, and the voices of Al Shabaab-associated women defectors in Somalia. The issue also includes a review essay by Alan Hirsch looking at migration and Africa, and four book reviews.
Research articles
African agency, COVID-19 and debt renegotiations with China
By Mandira Bagwandeen, Christopher Edyegu and Oscar M. Otele
Geopolitics, technology wars and global supply chains: Implications for Africa
By Mzukisi Qobo and Mjumo Mzyece
The diplomacy of normalisation: The case of South Africa and Rwanda
By Jo-Ansie Van Wyk
By Ardian Shajkovci, Rukaya Abdirahman, Amanda Garry, Allison McDowell-Smith, and Mohamed Ahmed
Development trajectories of mediation support structures in the AU, ECOWAS, IGAD and SADC
By Michael Aeby and Jamie Pring
By Tola Amusan and Philip Nel
Book Review Essay
Migration and Africa – what light do four recent books cast on migration in Africa?
By Alan Hirsch
Book Reviews
The Presidents: From Mandela to Ramaphosa, Leadership in the Age of Crisis by Richard Calland and Mabel Sithole
Reviewed by Christopher Williams
Overlapping Regional Organizations in South America and Africa; Coexistence Through Political Crises by Clarissa Correa Neto Ribeiro
Reviewed by Daniel Bach
State Behavior and the International Criminal Court: Between Cooperation and Resistance by Franziska Boehme
Reviewed by Maxine Rubin
The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefield by J Warner, R Cummings & R O’Farrell
Reviewed by Sven Botha
