Eurafrica is a very timely book on an important topic. While stressing continuity across the twentieth century and cataloguing Eurafrican projects in an accessible and useful manner, it shows that colonies played a much more important role in the thinking about European cooperation than is generally acknowledged.

Anne-Isabelle Richard, Journal of Global History

A powerful essay ... Hansen and Jonsson are to be commending for having written a book on European integration that will be of interest to scholars both of postcolonial studies as well as of modern European history in general.

H-Soz-Kult online

It is not often that one reads a work of academic history that has both interpretative value and policy relevance, as Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson's Eurafrica does. …[This] splendid book rightly dwells upon the ambiguous legacy of the concept of Eurafrica for the process of European integration.

Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

Hansen and Jonsson's exceptional study Eurafrica ... is invaluable in recovering the imperial history of Europe qua Europe.

Sociology

[A] wide-ranging and carefully researched book ... The authors are to be commended for their extensive research.

The European Legacy

A roseate glimmer of postwar peace attaches to 'Europe' - the fake continent and the organization of states that is said metonymically to stand for it. Hansen and Jonsson uncover something altogether different in the formation of the European project, something either unknown or papered over in embarrassed silence: Eurafrica. The colonial ideology, morphing into the neo-colonial here, is nothing less than astonishing.

Anders Stephanson, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of History, Columbia University, USA