This essay addresses the current dynamics of South-South cooperation, within the framework of the collaboration that China has been promoting in the search for a balance of power that gives a preponderant role to the Global South. In particular, this cooperation focuses on the regions of Latin America and Africa, historically dominated by North-Sou...
During lichenological fieldwork along the coast of the Atlantic Sahara, Morocco, we collected some remarkably long lobed “Caloplaca” specimens, which turned out to be Stellarangia namibensis. This is the first record of this species in the northern hemisphere, and represents a significant extension of the knownrange of a lichen previously thought t...
In Mozambique, as in other parts of the world, COVID-19 has had consequences in many areas, especially in the health sector. This study aims to analyze the comments made and discussed on Facebook after the first death from the disease, verifying the main topics, concerns, and feelings that users most expressed on that social network. Using the cont...
The African continent, made up of five sub-regions, which is made up of a vast area in which excessive demographic and urban growth goes hand in hand with high economic potential, although a number of factors are complicating, and are further complicating, this economic development. In order to assess this environment, the economic situation in Afr...
The tradition of animal art, generated on the African continent, is still alive and well in the representative imaginary of some of today's South African artists and activistpoliticians.This plastic heritage can be seen in the sculptural groups The Butcher Boys (1986) and Bom Boy (1998) created by the Johannesburg-born multidisciplinary artist Jane...
The text analyzes the limitations of the implementation of the ethno-cultural model of nation in the construction of identity in sub-Saharan Africa based on the case of Ivory Coast. It is a qualitative inquiry that resorts to the case study method, based on documentary research and in-depth interviews for data collection, as well as on induction an...
Objective/Context: The purpose of this article is first to contextualize the concept of the “Global South.” Then, we offer an overview of classical and new historiographies of capitalism(s) of the “Global South.” We focus on works that examine the period between roughly the 10th and 19th centuries, and further explain how we understand and periodiz...
The war in Ukraine represents a turning point in global geopolitics; once again, and very clearly, a series of blocs have been defined, of large associations of nations which, with this conflict as a backdrop, are aligning themselves to pursue their interests, in a way not seen since the Second World War and its successorl, the Cold War. Although t...
Africa is an essential continent on the world’s strategic stage. It offers many opportunities: economic growth, even though it is now slowed down by the effects of COVID 19; energy wealth, huge mineral and water reserves and vast areas of fertile land; and, above all, a population explosion which, if well managed, will be the best guarantee of stab...
kept in the Archivo Histórico de Antioquia, the manuscripts herein transcribed are two exceptional pieces that help interpret the African diaspora history in America. Although they do not clarify whether the men depicted were born in Africa or in America, both refer to dark skin men of sociodemographic African ascendance, who lived in Antioquia pro...
