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The rise of china and India in Africa; From an economic perspective
From 1973 to 1979, the total amount of the countries that had
signed trade and industry and technological cooperation protocols
with China around forty four.
After India’s independence in 1947, a new policy with Africa
started by the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, calling
for opposition to imperialism, racism, military colonialism, eco-
nomic and cultural colonialism, and all forms of foreign violence,
domination, occupation, intervention or dominion – principles that
mirrored the hopes and aims of the recently independent states of
Asia and Africa . Nehru played a vital role in promoting the Af-
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rican struggle through the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which
reflected the troubles, views, and dreams of the Third World.
Africa was playing a major responsibility in Prime Minister Neh-
ru’s idea of establishing the new international order of the new inde-
pendent states. India and Africa seemed likely to turn into important
partners in the cold war era, especially With India pushing for the
independence of African states from foreign hegemony.
Booth of them faced the challenges of growth and development,
which in the 1960s and 1970s were results from the conditions of
worldwide deal, which were seen as being formed mainly by the de-
veloped North states, so they established the set of 77.
The India- Africa relations were established basically on ideo-
logical and idealistic values and were principally political, and by
the closing stages of the cold war, and by the beginning of India’s
trade and industry new plan early on the 1990s, India’s external rela-
tions has changed away from Nehruvian non-alignment and Gandhi-
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