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Black Africa and the Nasser-Gaddafi Neo-Colonial Phenomenon: A Historical Analysis of the Dynamics of Black Africa-Arab Relations
Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe
Article Number - 604F45147C6AA | Vol. 2(1), pp. 1-14., March 2021 |
Received: 12 December 2020 | Accepted: 12 February 2021 | Published: 31 March 2021
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Abstract
There is no
doubt that Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser was the precursor of modern Arab
diplomacy in Black Africa. In other words, what became known in the 1970s and
beyond as the Arab-Sub-Saharan Africa policy stemmed from the official Egypt’s
Africa policy of the 1950s and to some extent the 1960s. Thus, it is impossible
to speak of an Arab-Africa foreign policy without reference to Egypt. Egypt
thus, could be described as the diplomatic bridge through which modern Arab
diplomacy crossed to the Black Continent. The demise of Abdel Nasser in 1969
and the subsequent emergence of the Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi heralded what could
be seen as a continuum of the same Nasserist Arab imperial tendency in Black
Africa. Seen in this light it becomes germane to place the present study in
four periodic phases: the Egyptian phase, which runs from 1952 to the formation
of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963; the era of containment, which
began from 1963 to the six-day war of 1967; the Arab phase which extends from
1967 onwards, but which, in respect of the present study, terminates in 1993,
and the Gaddafi continuum which ended with his demise in 2011. Keywords: Arab neo-colonialism, Black Africa,
Abdel Gamal Nasser, Muammar Gadaffi, Middle East conflict.
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Authors
Nwankwo T.
Nwaezeigwe
Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
E-mail: [email protected]
How to Cite this Article
Nwaezeigwe, N. T. (2021).
Black Africa and the Nasser-Gaddafi Neo-Colonial Phenomenon: A Historical
Analysis of the Dynamics of Black Africa-Arab Relations. Archives of Political
Science Research, 2(1): 1-14.
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