RAIMI FASSASSI Researcher and instructor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée in Abidjan, Ivory Coast SVEN GRIMM Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa NATASHA GRIST Head of Research for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network and Research Fellow in the Rural Policy and Governance group at the Overseas Development Institute, London, UK FRANCIS NGUENDI IKOME Head of the African Conflict Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa GECI KARURI-SEBINA Research Associate at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa GARTH LE PERE Senior Partner of the consulting firm DAJO Associates and Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of Pretoria, South Africa RASIGAN MAHARAJH Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa STEFAN MEYER independent author and consultant ALIOUNE SALL Executive Director of the African Futures Institute CHINWE IFIJEKA SPERANZA Researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn and at the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of Bern, Germany MARTHE ROCH worked as a researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany PATRICE VIMARD Researcher at the Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement in Marseilleand Research Director at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France HE WENPING Professor and Director of the Division of African Studies at the Institute of West Asian and African Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China