01247nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001260003400042653003600076653004000112100001300152245006500165300001200230490000800242520081400250022002501064       2022                            d  bOxford University Press (OUP)10aSociology and Political Science10aGeography, Planning and Development1 aTieku TK00aA new research agenda for Africa’s international relations  a487-4990 v1213 a<p>The article takes stock of the eclectic Africa’s International Relations (AIR) scholarship with a view to setting a new research agenda for this vibrant subfield of International Relations (IR). It argues that the AIR community has taken a defensive approach to knowledge production and dissemination. It calls on AIR scholars to shift the emphasis from reactionary scholarship to an offensive knowledge production and dissemination by building research around five key themes. The article shows that a research agenda in the five areas can give epistemic freedom to AIR scholars, contribute to freeing IR from Euro-American metanarratives, and ultimately put AIR scholars in a position to develop analytical frameworks capable of capturing nuances and complexities of international life in Africa.</p>
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