The New Scramble for Africa
The BRICS powers aren’t anti-colonial counterweights. They’re looking for new markets and resources for their corporations, just like Western countries.
Pádraig Carmody is an associate professor of geography at Trinity College Dublin and a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg. The second edition of his book, The New Scramble for Africa, will be published by Polity Press in 2016.
The BRICS powers aren’t anti-colonial counterweights. They’re looking for new markets and resources for their corporations, just like Western countries.