POL 5032 Week VIII

How have the BRICS fared in Africa?  What is the nature of South/South trade and investment between the BRICS and Africa, and have the BRICS trumped the developed world within Africa?

My thanks go to Thomas Isbell for preparing the debate this week on the BRICS while I was away investigating the EAC in Kenya and Tanzania. His charts were most informative and surprised me with some of the more salient facts on the level of trade between the BRICS and Africa.