Afro-Decolonial Critique of South Africa's call for Reform of the United Nations Security Council in the Context of BRICS

The global reform has since 1994 received an apex priority in the multilateral engagements of the post-apartheid South Africa's administration. After being readmitted to the international community following prolonged isolation occasioned by the apartheid racial policy, South Africa made global reform one of its foreign policy pillars. This saw the country joining the South-South institutions like the Non-Alignment Movement, India, Brazil, and South Africa, Group of Seventy-Seven+China and New Asia-Africa Strategic Partnership, and in recent times integrated into the BRICS bloc of emerging countries. While there is extensive literature on South Africa's call for global reform in the BRICS, such studies have overlooked the coloniality that is embedded in the new world order and the proposed reform. Against this background, this desktop article employs an Afro-Decolonial lens to critique South Africa's call for Reform of the United Nations Security Council in the context of BRICS to unmask coloniality that is embedded in the new world order and the proposed reform. Methodologically, the article adopted an Afrocentric qualitative research methodology and document analysis.