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 India and Africa's Partnership
A Vision for a New Furure by Ajay Kumar Dubey & Aparajita Biswas

 Editors and Contributors

 

About the Editors

 

Ajay Dubey is director of the UGC Centre for African Studies, School of International Studies. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has more than two decades of post-graduate teaching and research experience. He has about nine published books to his credit along with several dozen research papers published in research journals of international repute. He is the editor-in-chief of three international research journals, Africa Review and Diaspora Studies (by Routledge, London) and Insight on Africa (by Sage Publication). He is currently the Secretary General of African Studies Association of India (ASA India), and President of Organization for Diaspora Initiatives (ODI International). His areas of interest include international relations,  African affairs, Diaspora studies, Indian migration, Indo-African relations, development issues and political science.

Aparajita Biswas is professor and former director of Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai. She obtained her Ph.D. in African Studies from the same centre. She is currently the president of ASA India and editor of the journal Africa Review. She is associated with various universities, research institutes and research groups in India and abroad and has published books and several research articles in national and international journals. Her areas of interest include African studies, international relations, India-Africa relations, Indian Ocean region, South and Southern Africa, energy security issues.

 

Contributors

 

Chris Alden International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Aparajita Biswas Centre for African Studies (CAS), University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

Ajay Kumar Dubey School of International Studies, UGC Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India

Ian Taylor Professor in International Relations and African Politics, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK

Raj Verma International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

 Contents

 

1.       Introduction: A Long-Standing Relationship..................................................................     1

Ajay Kumar Dubey and Aparajita Biswas

 

2.      India-Africa Relations: Historical Goodwill and a Vision

for the Future.....................................................................................................................     11

Ajay Kumar Dubey

 

3.      Indian Investors Seeking Markets and Business Prospects...........................................     41

Aparajita Biswas

 

4.      India’s Pursuit of Investment Opprtunities in Africa....................................................     61

Chris Alden and Raj Verma

 

5.      The Importance of Africa in India’s  Energy Security...................................................     83

Aparajita Biswas

 

6.      India’s Economic Diplomacy in Africa............................................................................     99

Ian Taylor

 

7.      The Indian Dispora as a Heritage Resource in Indo-African

Relations............................................................................................................................     115

Ajay Kumar Dubey

 

8.      Conclusion........................................................................................................................     137

Ajay Kumar Dubey and Aparajita Biswas

 

Appendix A: First Africa-India Forum Summit 2008, New Delhi.....................................     147

Appendix B: Second Africa-India Forum Summit 2011, Addis Ababa............................     169

Appendix C: Lines of Credit to Africa.................................................................................     183

Selected Bibliography............................................................................................................      199

Index........................................................................................................................................     227

 
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