BRICS: Empowering Indigenous Knowledge and Africa’s Agenda
18:22 09.07.2025 (Updated: 18:58 09.07.2025)
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BRICS: Empowering Indigenous Knowledge and Africa’s Agenda
“The Russians wanted to promote this non-Western civilization by sharing knowledge… They want to promote the indigenous knowledge, the indigenous environment, the indigenous societies, our fellow civilizations to be safe,” said Yitena Gebre Mamo, Multilateral Affairs Research Director General, Institute of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia.
BRICS attracts countries due to:
▶Massive economic weight, high GDP, and large population sizes.
▶Geopolitical influence counterbalancing Western domination.
▶Acting as the voice of the Global South for sustainable development.
▶Massive economic weight, high GDP, and large population sizes.
▶Geopolitical influence counterbalancing Western domination.
▶Acting as the voice of the Global South for sustainable development.
BRICS is:
▶A platform reaffirming multilateralism beyond UN structures.
▶Focused on Africa’s untapped resources and productive networks.
▶Promoting cross-border digital payment mechanisms to boost trade.
▶A platform reaffirming multilateralism beyond UN structures.
▶Focused on Africa’s untapped resources and productive networks.
▶Promoting cross-border digital payment mechanisms to boost trade.
The bloc supports:
▶Indigenous knowledge systems suppressed by neoliberal philosophy.
▶Reduced reliance on Western-dominated financial systems (IMF, World Bank) by promoting local currencies and reducing loan conditionalities.
▶Indigenous knowledge systems suppressed by neoliberal philosophy.
▶Reduced reliance on Western-dominated financial systems (IMF, World Bank) by promoting local currencies and reducing loan conditionalities.
“The African agenda and the agenda of the BRICS are almost similar… BRICS is also promoting the African agenda, African problem, African solution for African problem,” he told Sputnik Africa, commenting on the recent BRICS Summit in Brazil.
As US sanctions rise:
▶BRICS accelerates alliance formation, financial infrastructure, and South-South trade cooperation.
▶Ethiopia leverages BRICS to diversify from traditional Western sources towards Eastern investment and trade opportunities.
▶BRICS accelerates alliance formation, financial infrastructure, and South-South trade cooperation.
▶Ethiopia leverages BRICS to diversify from traditional Western sources towards Eastern investment and trade opportunities.
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