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Nigeria and South Africa in the Global Forum

The end of apartheid saw the end of the implacable hostility between successive Nigerian governments and the minority regime in South Africa. Many saw this as the beginning of a rivalry for the leadership of the African continent between Nigeria and a free South Africa. One headline in a Nigerian newspaper in 1994 screamed “Nigeria Loses Clout to South Africa.” 2 The article went on to state that the crisis in Nigeria had shifted the respect of the international community from Nigeria to South Africa. The issue of permanent seat for Africa in the United Nations Security Council, which is of mu…