Africa and India Looking to the future together in a post-Covid-19 World
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Covid-19 pandemic;, Diplomatic Relations;, Economic Revival;, Africa;, India;
Abstract
Indo-Africa relations steeped back into centuries of shared historical experiences. Underscoring Africa’s importance, India instituted the India-Africa Summits as a platform to advance relations between the two partners. Given rising optimism of economic re-opening following the Covid-19 pandemic induced global lockdown, India has the opportunity to reinvent her relationships with Africa by deepening existing collaborations and breaking new frontiers. To this end, this article discusses the politics of Indo-Africa’s relations and advance the need to forge closer beneficial relations between India and Africa by looking together to the future in a post-Covid-19 world.
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World Bank (2021). The World Bank in India-Overview. New Delhi-World Bank. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1800-4_ov
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Luqman Saka, University of the Gambia
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Africa and India: Looking to the future together in a post-Covid-19 World. (2022). Journal of BRICS Studies, 1(1), 68-85. https://doi.org/10.36615/jbs.v1i1.641