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Entente Commerciale: The Soviet Union and West Africa

The Afro-Soviet entente is as much an economic as a political relationship. Although not yet substantial, commercial ties between the two continents are significant both because they are, in theory, mutually beneficial and because they provide scope for development from a few loose strands to a complex network of economic relations. Ghana was one of the first African countries to attempt to improve its economic links with the USSR and therefore illustrates better than most, the possibilities and pitfalls entailed in such an attempt. Its close neighbour Nigeria, was much more reserved in its de…