"I think the BRICS opens the doors, but those doors need to be flooded by all of us representing the global majority to make sure that we transform, not merely reform, these institutions inside the straitjacket that created them," he said.
"Russia is involved in mining operations in a whole range of ways in which we are improving the capacities, the capabilities, and the competencies of Africans to do this as ourselves," the interviewee added, noting Russia's input in Africa's self-reliance development.
"We are bringing the wealth of experience of the Global South into world systems itself. And for me, that's the strongest element that comes through our indigenous; our traditional knowledge is our ways of seeing the world now have a chance to not only be resuscitated, but brought, updated and made available to all of us," Maharajh stressed.