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Maneuvering Affinities: An Outline of the History of Nigeria’s Diplomatic Relations with the Third World

From about the 15th century, imperialism, in the realm of international relations, has been affecting every aspect of human existence. As it places its advocates and apologists (the capitalists nations) on the top of the ladder of the international system, it ensures, not only the perpetuation of its victims (the developing nations) at the bottom, suffering its weights, but also ensured the twisting of their collective psyche to accept inferiority. Nigeria is one of such emergent nations, which are termed under the rubric “Third World”. Being a product of colonial system, Nigeria was structura…