When scholars take the time to reect on regionalism on the African continent, they usually consider it primitive, weak or simply a ‘failure’ (Asante 1997; Mistry 2003). A closely related misunderstanding is that African regionalism is consid-ered of little relevance for comparative regionalism, which is illustrated by the fact that the African case is frequently excluded from such literature (Manseld and Milner 1997; Mattli 1999) These weaknesses reect the general marginali -zation of ‘Africa’ in academic research on the one hand and the overwhelming dominance of Eurocentric theories in the study of regionalism on the other.

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