International records / OpenAlex research

Nigeria and Africa in the 21st Century

The study critically appraises the redeemer posture of Nigeria in Africa’s plethora of dire straits in the 21st century. Like the United States once regarded it a manifest destiny to protect and exercise influence over its “backyard” in the Western Hemisphere, so does Nigeria assume a role of salvaging Africa and repositioning it, which has manifested in its Afrocentric or Africa-centered policy. The continent’s problems include a debilitating economic strangulation, civil wars, religious conflict, poverty, bad government, HIV-AIDS, underdevelopment, which continually plague the continent. Hen…