5 The Belt and Road Initiative is a Chinese-lead initiative aiming to foster global connectivity through a sea and a land route.English version (一带一路 -yi dai yi lu), has joined the financing from countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and from international organisations, such as the World Bank. 6 Chinese financing is certainty assuming a central role in infrastructure development across the continent, but Chinese contractors are also expanding their activities to projects not funded by Chinese actors, increasing their market share in the construction industry from 9.9% in 2002 to above 40% in 2011. 7 This is the case for Lamu port in Northern Kenya, focus of this paper, currently funded by the Kenyan government and built by a Chinese construction company.The Lamu port project is part of the broader connectivity initiative, the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor 8 , a connectivity initiative aimed to connect Kenya to South Sudan and Ethiopia through the development of cross-border connectivity infrastructure, and key component of the developmental agenda Kenya Vision 2030.The institutional structure deployed to coordinate and guide the development of LAPSSET Corridor is highly centralised, as it is often the case with developmental agendas' flagship projects.The Office of the President officially introduced the LAPSSET corridor and created a state authority -LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority (LCDA) -to oversee and guide the implementation of all corridor components. 9 The politics of émergence opens new avenues for the redeployment of state as the driver of development initiatives, but, at the same time, it also unveils evolving power-relations amongst the actors involved. The Chinese-constructed Lamu port is far more than (yet) another Chinese-constructed infrastructure project in Africa; its role as catalyst for the LAPSSET corridor project and its location make it a viable point of connectivity that has increasingly attracted the attention of the international community, including Chinese actors.China-Africa research has so far focused mainly on the drivers for Chinese engagement with African nations 10 and on the effects of said engagement 11 , failing to account for the role of African actors in shaping interactions with their Chinese counterpart and for the fragmented nature of

En Allemagne, l’« été des migrations » de l’année 2015 a entraîné une série de restrictions de la loi sur le droit d’asile et provoqué un débat public de plus en plus hostile envers les populations étrangères. Les Afghans, qui constituent l’une des principales communautés de migrants de ce pays, ont été particulièrement touchés par ces revirements politiques. Leurs dynamiques de mobilisations politiques à Berlin sont analysées ici à partir d’un travail de terrain et en mobilisant les théories culturelles et interactives de la contestation. La perception d’une réelle menace d’expulsion, les sentiments d’injustice et d’indignation face aux nouvelles mesures restrictives ainsi que le rôle de courtiers joué par des migrants plus établis se sont combinés pour rendre possible une union provisoire de la communauté des Afghans en exil et ont fini par pousser de nombreux demandeurs d’asile à prendre temporairement la parole en public au lieu d’accepter en silence un régime migratoire restrictif.

Le Train Express Régional (TER) du Sénégal cristallise les débats relatifs à la promesse d’émergence et à ses limites, tant matérielles que discursives. Analyser l’écart qui existe entre la vision de la croissance présentée par les dirigeants et la réalité du chantier toujours inachevé à ce jour permet de souligner les effets des politiques de l’émergence sur la prise de décision et la relation entre l’État et les citoyens. Ces politiques, caractérisées par une centralisation de l’intervention étatique, s’inscrivent dans la continuité de logiques néolibérales. La multitude des acteurs impliqués dans le projet du TER engendre un manque de coordination qui désavantage les plus pauvres, physiquement et métaphoriquement pris entre plusieurs méga-infrastructures censées les projeter dans un avenir radieux. La critique de l’émergence revêt toutefois des formes variées, plus ou moins visibles et nuancées. Certes, le désaccord face au projet d’infrastructures tel qu’il est mené fait partie des dynamiques de constitution de l’État, mais les réactions des différents acteurs interrogent ici plus spécifiquement la notion de bien public et de croissance inclusive du Plan Sénégal Émergent.

This new feature of "Looking-in-between" focuses on two works by the artist Banu Cennetoglu, respectively called "False Witness" and "The List".The starting point of the first work is the visit to an asylum seekers registration center, Ter Apel (The Netherlands). The second presents a list of 6,336 refugees who died within the European borders since 1993, a list which the artist intends to disseminate in the city of Amsterdam. Art work ? Plan ? What can be said of the creation process when the artist's eye focuses on the most crude reality ? We have been particularly interested in this artist's visual approach and in the originality not only of her look at but also and above all of her attitude dedicated to the mediation and the possibility of a dialogue between the artist and the public. In this respect, "questions" seems to be the keyword. A questioning motivating the artist, her will to do and the way she does it. A questioning that is intended to be submitted to the observer when confronted to an artwork. The link between the words "art" and "politics" for Banu Cennetoglu -if it exists -is given by the relation to uncertainty, not considered as a problem but as a tool, or even a force for the artist concerned by the reality.The visual dimension of Banu Cennetoglu's works -as the artist indicated us during the interview -being essential, we invite the reader to visit her personal website (http:// www.banucennetoglu.com) 1 .About "False Witness" Banu CENNETOGLU (B.C.) : False Witness started to take shape in my mind after I saw the "Asylum Seeker Registration Center" (prior to the attribution of the status of refugee) in Ter Apel, Holland.The process involving the asylum seeker once he or she is inside is parallel to the architectural structure of the building.

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