Sócio-antropologia de Desenvolvimento de África: entre a Cooperação e a Política e Economia de Autoconfiança

Abstract

The text seeks to discuss the alternatives for African development between cooperation and the policy and economy of self-reliance. Given the failures of neoliberal policies translated into structural adjustments to which African countries were subjected from the 1970s onwards as a mechanism to save their economies from collapse, as well as the few results arising from cooperation with new actors such as the BRICs and China in particular, several theorists put forward the policy of self-reliance as an alternative for development. The text seeks to problematize this alternative and discusses the possibility of development based on the reconciliation of the development paradigm through external aid and loans and the policy of self-reliance. Through the bibliographical review we seek to defend the thesis according to which sustainable development for Africa is possible through external financing reconciled with internal potential, which is why it is necessary to maintain cooperation with all available actors, as well as the search for the modernization and updating of all cultural, social and human resources to place them at the service of the development of the African continent.