AFRICA'S STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH BRICS AND OTHER EMERGING COUNTRIES

434pp., paperback, Fanele, Johannesburg, 2025 

ISBN: 9781776345991

A collection of essays that examine the opportunities and complexities of Africa's strategic partnerships and their bearing on Africa's position in the global arena.

Contributions include:

"Brazil-Africa relations over two decades: Politics, economics, security and race and the promise unfulfilled" by Candice Moore

"Africa-Russia relations interrogated" by Chidochashe Nyere

"India-Africa relations: Moving towards a lasting strategic partnership" by Aparajita Biswas

""Africa-China relations: Empirically assessing a 'strategic partnership' across four dimensions" by Bhaso Ndzendze

"South Africa, Africa and strategic partnerships" by Siphamandla Zondi

"Africa's foreign relations with Iran: Examining opportunities and challenges" by Thembisa Fakude

"This volume ambitiously examines the Global South's role in shaping its future with BRICS, highlighting emerging markets' responsibilities while affirming Africa's equal stake in defining collective development outcomes." Prof Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, India

Professor Siphamandla Zondi is the Director of the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Co-Director of the Institute for Global African Affairs, jointly hosted by UJ and the University of the West Indies, Barbados. His recent publications include the book NGOs, Africa and Global Power (2024) and the edited volumes Political Economy of Intra-BRICS Cooperation (2023) and Smartly Digital Local Government (2024).

Hellen Adogo is a researcher at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg.