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This compendium is the outcome of an international workshop titled South-South Cooperation: Africa on the Centre Stage, organized by the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, in February 2008. At the working sessions several academics agreed that the continent was on centre stage of the emergent global reconfigurations while others were more sceptical and questioned, Africa on the centre stage?
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Modi, R. (2011). Introduction. In: Modi, R. (eds) South-South Cooperation. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316812_1
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