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Nigerian Foreign Policy in the Year 2000

In a Lagos lecture on ‘Nigeria in World Affairs’ in the mid-1970s, Ali Mazrui predicted that at the end of this century Nigeria would have greater diplomatic influence than either Britain or France even though she might not be as technologically developed as them [1]. Mazrui’s prediction must be regarded as too bold and perhaps misleading. Bold because a variety of factors, and the forces of the unforeseen, could frustrate this prediction. Misleading because it tends to separate the level of industrial technology from the diplomatic weight of a country. While it is arguable that diplomatic inf…