Beyond history : African agency in development, diplomacy and conflict resolution / edited by Elijah Nyaga Munyi, David Mwambari, and Aleksi Ylönen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. State Agency -- Conceptualizing Agency and Influence in African International Relations / Elijah N. Munyi, David Mwambari, and Aleksi Ylönen -- Appropriating African Agency in International Relations / Funmi Olonisakin and Moses Tofa -- Confronting an Imperialist Court: The Quagmire of African Agency in Dealing with the International Criminal Court / Torque Mude -- Growing Actorness and Clientilist Success in African Summit Diplomacy / Elijah N. Munyi -- Engaging Arab Powers: The Changing Regional Political Environment and Regime Agency in the Coastal Horn of Africa / Aleksi Ylönen -- Fledgling Agency: African Union (AU) Interventions in Election-related Violence in Côte d'Ivoire / Tinashe Sithole and Timi Legend Asuelime -- Hurting Stalemate in International Interventions: An Analysis of the African Agency in the IGAD-Led Engagements in the South Sudan Crisis, 2013-2017 / Muema Wambua -- Emergence of Post-Genocide Collective Memory in Rwanda's International Relations / David Mwambari -- African Agency Exercised by National States: The Case of South Africa / Fridon Lala -- Part II. Non-State Agency -- Revolution is Female: Reconstructing African Women's Agency in Political Regime Change Lessons from Sudan's Revolution / Fatuma Ahmed Ali and Stephen Amin Arrno -- The 'Rhizomic' Borders in the Spirit of 'Brotherhood' in the Horn of Africa / Agnes W. Behr -- African Agency through Film / Rachael Diang'a -- Renaissance of African Philosophy: Restoring the Stolen Legacy / Michael Kanyange Macharia.

"The volume seeks to document Africa (and African states) in a state of proactivity as opposed to a reactionary mode of international relations which has long been the case due to the discipline's heavy concentration on the West"--