Between Business and Balance: India–Japan in Africa vis-à-vis China

Academic scholarship and dominant knowledge paradigms constructed Africa as being marred with political instability, poverty, disease and the incapacity to govern itself. However, a change in the geopolitical locus from West to East has accorded Africa with primacy and enabled the global system to view the region as a potential hub for trade, business, technological development, infrastructural connectivity and geostrategic interests. Africa today, as a resource centre and an emerging global market, provides opportunities for developed and developing countries such as Japan, China and India to engage and invest for the enhancement of their own foreign policy goals of economic