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Discuss the major drivers of India’s interests in Africa.

  • UPSC 2023, 2021
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global South

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India's Africa engagement was long driven by anti-colonial solidarity with few material means. After the 1991 reforms, the founding of the African Union in 2002 and the first India–Africa Forum Summit in 2008, interest became the engine. The drivers are best read through three lenses together: realist concerns of resources and security, liberal interdependence through…

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