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Title: | New fractures, old wounds: Africa and the renewal of South agency |
Author: | Lopes, Carlos |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Afrika Spectrum (ISSN 0002-0397) |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 69-85 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa developing countries |
Subjects: | South-South relations development globalization |
External link: | https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/377 |
Abstract: | Africa has recently come to the forefront of world politics as part of the emerging South. Its increased prominence in the global discourse as a 'new frontier of development' signals the recognition of its economic potential. Indeed, the continent has registered an average 5 percent annual GDP growth rate over the past decade. However, there is more to the story than that: the rising profile of the African continent also reveals the growing role of a number of its countries in the emergence of a new South agency. It is argued that South-South cooperation is an opportunity. The discussion of the current situation in Africa, understood as a continent in all its diversity, including sub-Saharan Africa, but also the Maghreb and Egypt, will therefore be placed in this wider context. The renewal of a South agency witnessed over the past decade is somewhat different from the trilateral alliance of Asia-Africa-Latin America formed in the wake of decolonization. Current mega-trends demonstrate that the global South, driven by a number of regional powers, will play a vital role in shaping the twenty-first century. Understanding the complexities of this renewed agency is vital for addressing old wounds that marked the emergence of a South voice in the not-so-distant past. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in English and German. [Journal abstract] |