The notion that South-South relations have regained widespread interest, resulting in increasingly visible stances on international stages, has won considerable support in recent years. Brazil’s interactions with the African continent, in particular, came to epitomise such perception while sustaining an expectation of mutual alignment in several global issues. This article vies to provide an initial conceptualisation of such contemporary high politics dimension embedded in South-South relations?. It does so by analysing (1) voting behaviour between Brazil and African countries at the United Nations General Assembly during the 1991-2013 timeframe, (2) exploring coinciding issue-areas and (3) testing it against the US’s own record, in a bid to verify its overall South-South representativeness.

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Brazil,Africa,United Nations General Assembly

• Political Science - Social Sciences