1st Edition

Africa, the EU and the Samoa Agreement Exploring African Agency Amid the ‘New Scramble’

Edited By Sophia Price, Mark Langan Copyright 2025
198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume provides a timely and critical analysis of Africa‑EU Relations in the new Samoa Agreement phase of the long‑standing ‘Eurafrican’ relationship. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives and contributions it moves beyond Eurocentric visions of policy co‑operation on development to highlight three core themes that frame the analysis within this volume: the new scramble for... Read more

1 Introduction: A New Phase in Africa‑EU Cooperation?

MARK LANGAN AND SOPHIA PRICE

2 The New Scramble for Africa: Impact of Insecurity and Democratic Fragility on Africa‑EU Relations

OLAYINKA AJALA

3 Development Finance in EU‑OACPS Relations: From Wall Street to Schuman Square?

ANISSA BOUGREA AND JAN ORBIE

4 The Samoa Agreement and Global Health Objectives: Problematising EU Efforts for Healthier Citizenries in Africa

MARK LANGAN

5 Africa‑EU Migration at a Cross Road?

ADEOYE O. AKINOLA

6 EU‑Africa Cooperation on Security, Peace and Humanitarian Aid in the Post‑Cotonou Era: An Asymmetric Partnership

JULIAN BERGMANN, INA FRIESEN AND MARK FURNESS

7 The Samoa Agreement and Africa‑EU Interregionalism

ANTÓNIO RAIMUNDO

8 The Sites, Actors and Practices of Inter‑regionalism between African Regional Organizations and the EU: Zooming in on ECOWAS‑EU Relations

JENS HERPOLSHEIMER

9 Assessing Gender Provisions within the Samoa Agreement: The Gendered Contradictions of Decentring the Africa‑EU Relationship

SOPHIA PRICE

10 The Shortcomings of Samoa: Addressing Continuity and Change in Africa‑EU Relations

MARK LANGAN AND SOPHIA PRICE

Biography

Sophia Price is Professor of International Political Economy and Head of the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck College University of London, UK, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mark Langan is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London, UK.