Introduction: from "politics in command" to "economics in command" : China-Africa relations in an era of great transformations / Li Xing and Timothy M. Shaw -- Beyond debating the differences : China's aid and trade in Africa / Ashley Kim Stewart and Li Xing -- Chinese normative communities of practice : comparative study of China's relational governance of Africa and Central Asia / Emilian Kavalski -- Greening of Chinese-African relations / Sven Grimm and Meryl Burgess -- Capitalist or villain : Chinese SOEs in Africa / Yi-Chong Xu -- Europe and China in sub-Saharan Africa : which opportunities for whom? / Henning Melber -- Indian and Chinese soft power in Africa / Renu Modi -- Geopolitics, transnational spaces and development : reflections on the involvement of the US and China in Somalia / Abdulkadir Osman Farah -- China and Brazil's ECA activity : the case of Angola / Lucy Corkin -- South Africa's accession to the BRICS : towards the 2013 summit / Sanusha Naidu -- Index.