PARA ALÉM DA CHINA: CAPACIDADE OCIOSA E INVESTIMENTO ESTRANGEIRO DIRETO NAS FORMAÇÕES SOCIOESPACIAIS AFRICANAS NO INÍCIO DO SÉCULO XXI.

The recent growth of most African economies has led to the development of numerous analyzes that conditioned the phenomenon in question to the Chinese economic dynamism. However, in addition to the evident influence of the Asian country - which operates in Africa through bilateral agreements, loans and different types of investments - it is also necessary to raise what are the specific conditions of the productive forces of the 54 African socio-spatial formations today. The understanding of these specificities - as well as the idle capacities of their territories - is the primary vector for directing the Foreign Direct Investments, which reveal the architecture of economic interests between African heads of state and the rest of the world, beyond China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]