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The paper discusses the place of Africa in the context of North-South. It shows new criteria of North-South regionalization (quality of life understood both in socio-economic and political sense) and argues that Mauritius is the only African state belonging to the global North. Nevertheless the paper shows also differences and contrasts in level of economic and socio-economic development in African as part of the global South, arguing that some of them are very visible, even more than Brandt line.