What is the central purpose of writing Nigerian Foreign Policy Towards Africa? In part, it is to advance the study and understanding of the distinct relations among contemporary African states. This study is as much an integrated assessment of the development of Nigeria's African policies as it is an analytical overview of the structural factors impeding the adoption of rational policies towards the collective management of conflicts, promotion of economic cooperation, and political democratization in Africa. Issues raised in this study will facilitate further insight into how the dominant class in control of state power might use the instruments of foreign policy to restructure Africa's external economic relations, in order to effect fundamental change in the prevailing condition of underdevelopment.

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The Author: Okon Akiba teaches foreign Policy and Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at York University, North York, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Toronto. Research for this book was partly funded by the Commonwealth Fellowship Plan. Dr. Akiba has contributed articles in leading professional journals and is currently completing a book on the future of African international economic relations.