Abstract
This text analyzes the position of Africa in international relations from the colonial era at the end of the 19th century through the Cold War and the rise of China in the 1990s to the War on Terror after 2001. In the next part the text focuses on the current European effort to revive the strategic partnership between the two continents and on the growing role of other traditional actors such as Russia, India or Japan and new actors such as Turkey, Israel or Gulf countries.
In the very end the text offers a more general reflection on the position of Africa in current international relations and on the role other non-state actors.