Africa in the context of the planetization of the economy
requirements of social justice for sustainable human development
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https://doi.org/10.25247/P1982-999X.2025.v25n2.p04-26Keywords:
Africa, poverty, hope, education, developmentAbstract
The current global situation is marked by the expansion of markets and economic relations on ever wider, more universal and global scales. We live in a global market system in which those who do not have money are legally excluded. In this system, the fundamental equality of all people in terms of dignity and rights is constantly eclipsed by excessive economic and social inequalities, exclusion and marginalisation, thus constituting an obstacle to social justice and human development. This context leads us to reflect, certain that the search for a fairer and more humane future is not only a duty of statesmen, but of everyone. And it is this search for a fairer and more humane future that justifies a brief digression into the past of the African continent in order to better understand the challenges facing Africa, pointing out the main causes of poverty and the reasons for hope, as well as looking at education as an appropriate means of acquiring knowledge and, above all, as an essential means of charting a new course for the birthplace continent and, in this way, promoting values that are indispensable for the integral process of sustainable human development.
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