This paper studies the relationship between Asia’s economic engagements in Africa and individual African nations …’ participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. We find that while overall exports from Africa to Asia are …

policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. Has AGOA fulfilled its promise to serve as a catalyst for African economic development? The … Textiles and Clothing and China's accession to the WTO, the article considers AGOA's effect on Africa's nascent textile and …

-driven growth, Extracting profit explains why Africa has recently undergone an economic boom alongside widespread militarization … protest, from platinum workers' struggles in South Africa and Nigerian labor organizing to pro-democracy upheavals in Burkina … Faso. It points to the potential for resistance to global capital and for fundamental change, in Africa and beyond. …