Bridging the Atlantic is a descriptive study about Brazil’s involvement with counterparts in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade through knowledge exchange, trade, and investments. The objective of the study is to understand these relations better with the intent to forge concrete and mutually beneficial partnerships between Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa. Two elements explain the focus on the last decade. Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa are natural partners, with at one point a shared geography and later a shared history. Between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the transatlantic slave trade united the two regions until slavery’s abolition. Now, the two areas are reestablishing connections that will affect each other’s prosperity and development in major ways.
