The theme adopted for the OSSREA"s 9th Congress, Africa in the 21st Century: Setting of New Social Science Research Agendas, recognized the daunting challenges that Africa continues to grapple with, while remaining resilient and seeking new ways of engaging in order to contend with developmental imperatives. The papers which are included in this volume raise a good range of socio-economic issues which are current to the African agenda: governance, foreign direct investment, Socio-African economic relations, globalization and economic partnership agreements, gender in business, a well as the continuing scourge of HIV/AIDS.