This book investigates China s emergence as an outside player in SSA over the last several decades and the current understanding of the impact of Beijing s growing presence on the continent, including several case studies focused on specific SSA countries. China s accelerating economic and political engagement with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has gained growing attention in political and academic circles as a topic of both praise and derision. China has become the standard bearer of rising powers emerging from the developing world, and has begun to make inroads in its effort to secure strategic...