Major Brazilian destinations have attracted around 5,5 million foreign tourists last year, but only an insignificant part of them were Africans. Something rather unexpected if we take into account the proximity of the South America and Africa coasts. Only African poverty explains this situation.
Brazil
Embassies
Brazilian embassies: official addresses and correlated elements
Brazil Consulates
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Brazilian consulates: official addresses and correlated elements
«BRAZIL OWES AFRICA A
HISTORIC DEBT» (President Lula of
Brazil)
Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Guine Bissau all have an important common trace: all are former Portuguese colonies and all speak the same language – Portuguese.
Another common link, also connected to history, resides in the Brazilian population origin: the black Brazilian people are descendant of African slaves, driven to South America by the Portuguese, many of them from the former Portuguese colonies… See Brazil and the African Culture, for more details about this point. That’s why Brazil owes Africa a historic debt», according to Brazil’s President words.
These historic reasons may strengthen the ties between Brazil and Africa – links that Brazil wants to develop, and are expressed by several diplomatic and high ranking visits. There have been signed or are in progress several accords and actions aiming to promote health, cultural, industrial and commercial ties between Brazil and the ancient Portuguese colonies of Africa.
The President of Brazil, accompanied by more than 100 Brazilian businessmen, have recently visited and evaluated opportunities of cooperation with Angola, trying to increment the already strong relationship between the two countries, extending them to areas such as infrastructure, construction and agriculture, besides more traditional ones as the oil and the diamonds sectors.
Brazil and South Africa
But the Brazilian project for Africa
includes other African countries too, as showed by the formal accords with the
South Africa Republic in the so called G3.
The actual Brazilian Presidency is
betting in a privileged alliance with the most important southern African state:
South Africa. Global strategic talks and accords between the two regimes have
been intense in the last years, in a trilateral alliance that also includes
India. See:
India and
Brazil as Emerging New Potencies