Abstract
This is a curate's egg of a book. Some of the chapters are excellent, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Selectively read, it provides some useful summaries, stimulating analyses and original interpretations. However, despite the efforts of the editors—who find an overarching theme in the fact that Africa is a victim of the impositions of other nations, other regions and other organizations—no coherent picture of Africans' approach to the world emerges, nor an overview of their own agency in global affairs. In fact, the book would be better titled ‘The world and Africa’, as it is written overwhelmingly from an external perspective. From Adekeye Adebajo's account of the United States' policy of ‘malign neglect’ towards Africa to L. Adele Jinadu's summary of sub-Saharan Africa's fraught relations with the IMF and the World Bank, it is the external actor that is taken as the point of reference.
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