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Nigeria

Since formal independence in 1960, Nigeria’s political leaders have struggled to forge a nation out of the conglomeration of peoples inhabiting the country. 1 This is a Herculean task, given the more than 250 distinctive ethnic and linguistic groups brought together within a territory defined by the British colonisers. While building this new nation, Nigerian leaders have endeavoured to play important diplomatic roles in global, regional and West African subregional politics, and have sought a leadership position in Africa. Such foreign policy roles have clearly been influenced by the country’…