Author: ASHRAF PATEL

Is G20 Solidarity and Sustainability Possible in an Age of Northern Protectionism and a Hobbled Global South?

SHARED INTERESTS: South Africa's President, Cyril Ramaphosa and his Brazilian counterpart, Lula da Silva, share a light moment at the G20 Summit in Brazil. The writer says a Negritude-inflected reading reveals South Africa’s foreign policy as an affirmation of African agency and decolonial sovereignty, an extension of the liberation project, and a rejection of the Eurocentric structures that have historically circumscribed African participation in global governance. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert / TV BRICS

South Africa, and Africa’s, G20 in 2025 comes at a time of deepening geopolitical and geo-economic fractures, conflicts, and a cost-of-living crisis. We are told that hosting large international events brings prestige on the global stage, but it is expensive and does not necessarily lead to concrete development outcomes. There is an African proverb: “If… Continue reading Is G20 Solidarity and Sustainability Possible in an Age of Northern Protectionism and a Hobbled Global South?

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