Contents: - Africa in 2018: A Strategic Plan Mueni wa Muiu - ?We Met the Enemy and He is Us? : Domestic Politics and South Africa?s Role in Promoting African Democracy Steven Friedman - ?Big Think, Disjointed Incrementalism: Chinese Economic Success and Policy Lessons for Africa or the Case For Pan-Africanism? Jean-Germain Gros - The War on Terror and the Crisis of Postcoloniality in Africa Kenneth Omeje - Millennial Democracy and Spectral Reality in Post-colonial Africa Basile Ndjio - Islamism: What is New, What is Not? Lessons from West Africa Ousmane Kane A Biannual Journal