The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa

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The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa is written by Tim Zajontz and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031444493 (ISBN 10) and 9783031444494 (ISBN 13).

This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters. Case studies cover the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Zambia’s road sector as well as Tanzania’s Bagamoyo port and Standard Gauge Railway. It is shown that African (state) agency in the infrastructure sector is contingent upon dynamic state-society relations and distinct political-economic contexts and constraints. The book problematises contradictions related to infrastructure debt, the emergence of Sino-African public-private partnerships and the intensifying geopolitics-cum-geoeconomics of infrastructure across Africa.