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Understanding soft power in Africa : the power of attraction from Pretoria to Beijing / edited by Oluwaseun Tella.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global Africa http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/d8ae044d-e293-39d6-4f9e-e29da1dc70cb
- Global Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soft power (Political science)--Africa.
- Soft power (Political science).
- Geopolitics--Africa.
- Geopolitics.
- Africa--Foreign relations.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2025.
- Contents:
- Part I : Introduction. Soft power in Africa : assessing the power of attraction from Pretoria to Beijing / Oluwaseun Tella
- Part II : African regional powers' soft power / Nigeria's soft power : historical development and contemporary utilisation / W. Alade Fawole
- Ubuntu reconsidered? The rise and decline of South Africa's soft power / Anthoni van Nieuwkerk / From Nasser to the present : the evolution of Egypt's soft power in Africa / Hamdy A. Hassan
- Kenyan soft power : an untapped bag of mixed fortunes / Sammy Mwangi Waweru
- Seeing beyond Africa's image crisis : sports and the arts as drivers of Cameroon's soft power / Floribert Patrick C. Endong
- Part III : African small states' soft power. Beyond the genocide guilt card : understanding Rwandan soft power / Jonathan Beloff
- Assessing the soft power strategies of African small island developing states : the case of Mauritius / Marcel Nagar / Wielding soft power? Botswana's foreign policy in Africa and beyond / James Zaffiro
- In the sea of global relations, is Seychelles softly surfacing? / Suzanne Graham, Giddeon Chitanga and Philisiwe Mpondo
- Part IV : African regional organisations' soft power
- African Union's soft power on the international stage / Tim Murithi
- Eliciting compliance with ECOWAS's normative frameworks as an expression of soft power / Kwesi Aning and Ila Axelrod
- SADC : the long retreat from the promise of soft power / Paul-Henri Bischoff
- The EAC and the soft power of Eastafricaness : does it have limits? / Claire Amuhaya and Denis Degterev
- The paradox of African RECs' soft power : promise vs. inertia in the restive AMU / Stephen M. Magu
- Part V : External actors' soft power in Africa
- US soft power in Africa : a study in soft empowerment / Hendrik W. Ohnesorge and Tara D. Sonenshine
- 'Good friends, good partners, good brothers'? Success and failure in China's soft power strategy towards Kenya / Hendrik W. Ohnesorge and Emilia Dette
- Africa and the United Kingdom : influence and soft power / Tighisti Amare and Alex Vines
- Russia in Africa : understanding the persistence of soft power / Vladimir Shubin
- Soft power in Crisis : France's struggles for influence in Africa / Douglas A. Yates
- Building soft power across the Atlantic : unpacking Brazil-Africa engagements / Danilo Marcondes
- From Bollywood to diplomacy : India's soft power strategies in Africa / Arjun Chatterjee and Daya Kishan Thussu.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Understanding soft power in Africa.
- ISBN:
- 9781003582427
- 1003582427
- 9781040428207
- 1040428207
- 9781040428184
- 1040428185
- Publisher Number:
- 40032916445
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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