Non-Alignment and Nigeria's Foreign Policy, 1960-1979

ISBN-13: 9783659435980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 88 str.

Ajayi Adegboyega

Opis

This work is aimed at finding out the extent to which policy pronouncements by Nigerian foreign policy decision-makers on non-alignment coincided with or diverged from concrete policy actions in the period, 1960-1979. At independence, in 1960, Nigeria adopted the policy of not aligning with any power bloc as a matter of routine - a deliberately vague, and perhaps confusing, hint at non-alignment. However, as a result of her colonial heritage and the inability, even unwillingness, of the ruling elite to struggle for national economic self-reliance, Nigeria was unable to maintain a clearly non-aligned posture in her external relations. The balance of her foreign relations weighed more in favour of the western-bloc. The level of commitment to the West was such that Nigerias anti-imperialist and anti-apartheid drives were severely handicapped. Therefore, throughout the period studied (though to a lesser extent since the end of the Nigerian Civil War) there was always a wide gap between policy pronouncements and concrete actions.

O autorze

Ajayi, AdegboyegaAdegboyega AJAYI,PhD:Studied History at the Universities of Ife,Ile-Ife and Ibadan, Nigeria.Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History and International Studies, Joseph Ayo Babalola University,Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria. He co-authored "A Critique of Sources of Nigerian History" and authored three other books/many journal articles.