Australian-African Relations

Abstract

The Australian Commonwealth does not have as long a history with the African continent, since even the “Unknown Southern Continent” belonged to the British colonial empire a century ago, as France or Great Britain did, but in recent years it has been trying to build ever closer ties with Africa as a whole. It has become clear that Australia also wants to join the race for the appreciating Black continent, which many contemporary researchers describe as a new kind of 21st-century colonialism and which, in addition to the classic colonial countries (e.g., France, Great Britain), has been joined first by the United States of America and now by India and China—which are trying to overtake the group of developing countries but have not yet reached the developed West.