"Image of the World with Mikhail Kovalchuk": New centers of world development: Africa
Guest in the studio: Abramova Irina Olegovna, Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics.
Today there is a process of formation of a new world order and the growth of new centers of power and development. In conditions of multipolarity, the growing economies of the world's majority countries strive to fill their niches. Among them are the states of Africa, with a total population of almost one and a half billion people and a third of the world's mineral reserves. How is the role of Africa changing despite Western pressure? How has the colonial policy of Europe and the United States for centuries been the basis for the plunder of this part of the world, its human and natural resources? How has Russia repeatedly helped in solving the problems of the continent, from tsarist times to the present day? What was our support for Africa during the formation of independent states there?
How did Africa refuse to be the periphery of the world, becoming one of the fastest growing macro-regions in the 21st century? What new opportunities have emerged in African countries, their cities and regions for infrastructural, energy and technological development? Why is the West afraid of Russia's return to this continent? In what areas will the new stage of our cooperation with Africa be built - in the economy, culture, education, science and technology?
