Rise of the BRICS in Africa

A little over a decade ago Africa was being spoken of in the media as the ''lost'' or ''hopeless'' continent. Now it has some of the fastest growing economies in the world, largely because of the impact of the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In this first book to be written about the BRICS as a collective phenomenon, Pádraig Carmody reveals how their engagements with Africa, ...