African state agency -- China-Africa trade: causes, consequences, and perceptions / Joshua Eisenman -- The good, the bad, and the ugly: agency-as-corruption and the Sino-Nigerian relationship / Ian Taylor -- China and the shaping of African information societies / Iginio Gagliardone -- Understanding Angolan agency: the Luanda-Beijing face-off / Lucy Corkin -- Ethiopia: toward a foreign funded 'revolutionary democracy' / Aleksandra W. Gadzala -- African agency beyond the state -- Making space for African agency in China-Africa engagements: Ghanaian and Nigerian patrons shaping Chinese enterprise / Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan -- Racialization as agency in Zambia-China relations / Barry Sautman -- #madeinafrica: how China-Africa relations take on new meaning thanks to digital communication / Mark Kaigwa and Yu-Shan Wu -- Afro-Chinese cooperation: the evolution of diplomatic agency / Calestous Juma