Asian Tigers African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and former diplomats related to the Tracking Development research project funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and KITLV both in Leiden in collaboration with scholars based in Africa and Asia The project compared the performance of growth and development of four pairs of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub Sahara Africa during the last sixty years It tried to answer the question how two regions with comparable levels of income per capita in the 1950s could diverge so rapidly Why are there so many Asian tigers and not yet so many African lions What could Africa learn from Southeast Asian development trajectories