FROM COTTON FIELDS TO THE FIELDS OF SOCIETY

FUTURE RELATIONS AND TRENDS BETWEEN AFRICA AND BRAZIL

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to make us reflect on the relations of interest between the continent of Africa, in its magnitude, and Brazil, based on a compilation of information, and taking into account bilateral agreements signed between Brazil and some African countries. This study aims to broaden possible paths and problems that infer in this relationship between countries that have a similar history in terms of psychological colonialist subjectivation, and that have long walked concomitantly. Therefore, a case study was made based on the author's literature and experience, as well as on the reflections of different scholars. As an observer researcher and in order to have a reading of the real scenario we live (a scenario that concerns us all), this article is a cutout of a qualitative descriptive research (Good Practices In South-South And Triangular Cooperation) and based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our country has been facing a huge resistance to a structural problem that affects all social classes, and that, in large part, is the responsibility of the current Brazilian political scenario: racism. From this work, it is clear that there is a lot to explore regarding social development, the basic conditions and economic dimensions in which we are inserted, with our different particularities. It is necessary to encourage young Brazilian researchers to get to know and work in partnership with African institutions and become interested in their vision, especially in the field of agriculture, in order to get to know ourselves better. Moreover, the work developed with and for Africa opens doors within a new anti-Eurocentric and anti-elitist perspective, incorporating new protagonists and other worldviews, contributing to a closer relationship between our peers.