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What Can Be the Position of Africa in the Contemporary Globalisation? A Few Thoughts in the Matter…

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The article propose a general and comprehensive explanation of the impact of globalization in the Global South, using Africa as a regional case study on the possible alternatives for development without losing control to the Western bloc or with the Chinese bloc of global powers. This chapter presents the issues facing development from a general perspective that closes first part of the book by highlighting the issues surrounding development today.

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Notes

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    Translator’s note: French colonialism concept.

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    Translator’s note: Since 2013, Mr. Yang Jiechi has served as director of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China under Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (Wikipedia).

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    Economic Development in Africa Report 2019, UNCTAD, https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/aldcafrica2019_en.pdf.

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  1. Founder and Executive Director, African Futures Institute, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa

    Alioune Sall

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  1. The Royal Academy Morocco, Rabat, Morocco

    Rahma Bourqia

  2. Director Centro de estudios para la Acción y el Desarrollo Territorial, CONICET – Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Marcelo Sili

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Sall, A. (2021). What Can Be the Position of Africa in the Contemporary Globalisation? A Few Thoughts in the Matter…. In: Bourqia, R., Sili, M. (eds) New Paths of Development. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56096-6_5

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