Despite regionalism having developed into a global phenomenon, the European Union (EU) is still more often than not presented as the role-model of regionalism whose institutional designs and norms are adopted by other regional actors and organizations as part of a rather passive downloading process . Reaching beyond such a Eurocentric perception, Mapping Agency provides an empirically rich African perspective on regionalisms in Sub-Saharan Africa. It adopts an actor-centred approach but departs from a rather simplified understanding of agency as exerting power and instead scrutinizes to what...