African Responses to African Challenges: Reflections on State, Development and the Pandemic in Africa

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Published: Jan 7, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n32.41590
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African Development; Traditional and Emerging Powers; Autonomy; Protector State; Covid-19.

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Anselmo Otávio
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Brasil
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5560-4168
Elga Lessa de Almeida
Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia – Brasil
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9602-6285

Abstract

The featured article proposes to reflect on the relationship between the state, the Covid-19 pandemic, and development in the African continent. In this paper, I aim to demonstrate that, in addition to symbolizing the advancement of African solidarity and seeing integration as a means to solve African challenges, the actions to mitigate the advance of Covid-19 in the African continent, in fact, reflect, to a greater or lesser extent, the African state's detachment from neoliberalism. To this end, a qualitative, interpretative approach is adopted, based on a literature review and analysis of official documents. This paper is structured, apart from the introduction and the final considerations, in three more sections. In the first, we discuss the main characteristics of the relationship between the state and economic development in Africa during the Cold War. Next, we analyze the advance of neoliberalism and its impacts on the relationship between state and development in African countries. Finally, in the third section the main objective is to highlight how African countries acted in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Anselmo Otávio, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Brasil

Professor do Departamento de Relações Internacionais da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), doutor e mestre em Estudos Estratégicos Internacionais pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PPGEEI/UFRGS) e pesquisador do Centro Brasileiro de Estudos Africanos (CEBRAFRICA/UFRGS) e do Núcleo de Estudos dos BRICS (NEBRICS/UFRGS). 

Elga Lessa de Almeida, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia – Brasil

Professora adjunta da Universidade do Recôncavo da Bahia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais da Universidade Federal da Bahia.  Mestrado e doutorado em Administração pela Universidade Federal da Bahia. Membros dos grupos de pesquisa Laboratório de Análise Política Mundial -LABMUNDO/UFBA e Instituto de Estudos Latino-americanos - INEL/UnB.

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African Responses to African Challenges: Reflections on State, Development and the Pandemic in Africa . (2024). Astrolabio, 32, 50-77. https://doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n32.41590

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