In and Out and Out Again: The Travails of Brazil as a Security Provider in Africa
The story of Brazil as a contemporary security actor in Africa can prove a peculiar one. Marked by quick gains and an equally quick recognition over a short period of time, it has also been followed by an equally quick turnaround which has led, as of 2020
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razil-Africa Relations in the 21st Century From Surge to Downturn and Beyond
Brazil-Africa Relations in the 21st Century
Mathias Alencastro • Pedro Seabra Editors
Brazil-Africa Relations in the 21st Century From Surge to Downturn and Beyond
Editors Mathias Alencastro Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP) São Paulo, Brazil
Pedro Seabra Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) Centro de Estudos Internacionais Lisbon, Portugal
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Foreword: Africa Is Here
If you are not Brazilian and yet you are interested in reading about Brazil–Africa relations, maybe you should first acknowledge your ethnic background. If you are not an African or a citizen of African descent, you have probably been introduced to 300 or 400 years of history that has turned Brazil into a racial democracy and the second largest black country in the world, after Nigeria. But if you are a black person, you must have noticed that Brazilian Foreign Policy towards Africa is an all- white male business, romantically developed after a rich African cultural heritage, outrageously overlooking the relevance of race or colour in the construction of bilateral ties. Three decades dwelling on Brazil–African relations – a close witness, then, to a substantial part of it since Brazilian redemocratization – allows me to claim that the full understanding of this earlier statement needs to be at the centre of any discussion and assessment of the Brazilian Foreign
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