Understanding Soft Power in Africa : The Power of Attraction from Pretoria to Beijing (Hardcover)

Part I: Introduction??1. Soft Power in Africa: Assessing the Power of Attraction from Pretoria to Beijing??Part II: African Regional Powers’ Soft Power? 2. Nigeria’s Soft Power: Historical Development and Contemporary??3. Ubuntu reconsidered?? The rise and decline of South Africa’s soft power??4. From Nasser to the Present: The Evolution of Egypt's Soft Power in Africa??5.? Kenyan Soft Power: An Untapped Bag of Mixed Fortunes??6.? Seeing beyond Africa’s Image Crisis: Sports and the Arts as Drivers of Cameroon’s Soft Power??Part III: African Small States’ Soft Power? 7. Beyond the Genocide Guilt Card: Understanding Rwandan Soft Power??8. Assessing the Soft Power Strategies of African Small Island Developing States: The Case of Mauritius??9. Wielding Soft Power?? Botswana’s Foreign Policy in Africa and Beyond??10.? In the Sea of Global Relations, is Seychelles Softly Surfacing???Part IV: African Regional Organisations’ Soft Power??11.? African Union’s Soft Power on the International Stage??12.? Eliciting Compliance with ECOWAS’s Normative Frameworks as an Expression of Soft Power??13.? SADC: The Long Retreat from the Promise of Soft Power??14.? The EAC and the Soft Power of Eastafricaness: Does it Have Limits???15.? The Paradox of African RECs' Soft Power: Promise vs. Inertia in the Restive AMU??Part V: External Actors’ Soft Power in Africa??16.? US Soft Power in Africa: A Study in Soft Empowerment??17.? ‘Good Friends, Good Partners, Good Brothers’? Success and Failure in China’s Soft Power Strategy Towards Kenya??18.? Africa and the United Kingdom: Influence and Soft Power??19.? Russia in Africa: Understanding the Persistence of Soft Power??20. Soft Power in Crisis: France's Struggles for Influence in Africa??21. Building Soft Power Across the Atlantic: Unpacking Brazil-Africa Engagements??22. From Bollywood to Diplomacy: India's Soft Power Strategies in Africa?