Ahead of the summit, Manish Chand, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, India Writes Network and Centre for Global India Insights, speaks to Prof. Anil Sooklal, South Africa's BRICS Sherpa, on key issues that will figure on the summit agenda and outcomes one can expect from this transformational summit of the grouping of emerging economies. In this edition of Decoding Diplomacy, Prof. Sooklal, also Ambassador-at-large for Asia and BRICS in South Africa’s Department of International Relations, also speaks about the African Agenda and mainstreaming of the interests of the Global South in the BRICS agenda.