While the extensive network of economic, political, and military ties which the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has constructed across Africa has been the subject of increased scrutiny on the part of African policymakers, businesspeople, scholars, and activists as well as their counterparts in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.1 India’s rapidly expanding network of relations on the
... [Show full abstract] continent have gone largely unexamined with the exception of a small number of relatively short essays.2 However, as Africa, long marginalized in international relations, is increasingly recognized as strategically, diplomatically and economically vital to both the emerging multipolar global order and the individual national interests of the major powers, India’s burgeoning public and private investments in the region as well as its diplomatic strategy vis-à-vis African regional organizations and individual states needs to be better understood.
