Rhetoric and Praxis: Nigeria’s Africa Diplomacy and the Shaping of the African Union

Oshewolo, Segun

doi:10.1080/00358533.2019.1565343

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“…This study establishes that Nigeria has always pursued a hegemonic ambition in the African region (Oshewolo 2019a, 2019d, 2019e; Saliu and Oshewolo 2018) and has often used the platform of the UN to give effect to this ambition and project its power capabilities to the world. The legitimacy of Nigeria’s leadership ambition in Africa is built on some compelling grounds.…”

Section: The Legitimacy Of Nigeria’s Leadership Ambitions In Africamentioning

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“Instrumentalizing” The United Nations: Nigeria and Its Quest for Regional Leadership in Africa

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This study demonstrates that Nigeria’s power scheme in the United Nations (UN) clearly amounts to “instrumentalizing” the world body in favor of its hegemonic interest in Africa. Through the UN, Nigeria has employed its abundant power resources to support the dismantling of apartheid and colonialism in Africa, contribute actively to the maintenance of international peace, and promote social and economic development in the developing world, including Africa. Nigeria’s exploits in the above areas have yielded notable dividends, particularly the projection of the country as a leading African power. The notable dividends notwithstanding, there have been some major setbacks such as occasional disdain for Nigeria’s interest and ambition in the UN by smaller African countries, overwhelming domestic security challenges, and the consequent waning of Nigeria’s role in UN-mounted peacekeeping. The study recommends that Nigeria must urgently address these challenges to return to its position of prominence in the world body.

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Section: The Legitimacy Of Nigeria’s Leadership Ambitions In Africamentioning

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“…In other words, international organizations represent major platforms for the pursuit of multilateral diplomacy. Given the nature of the international system, the arrangement by which nations act as a group through international organizations has now become the rule rather than the exception (Akindele 2013; Barkin 2006; Nwankwo 2013; Oshewolo 2019d).…”

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“…West Africa’s armed conflicts and their corollaries are always of great concern to Nigeria, for which it has consistently deployed its military, economic and human capabilities for the purpose of peacemaking, peacekeeping and enforcement. These corollaries—socio-economic development drawbacks, humanitarian and environmental catastrophes, conscription of child soldiers and the proliferation of small arms—have serious national security implications for Nigeria and therefore demand an emphatic response from the country (Akindele 2013; Albert 2007; Alli 2012; George 2012; Nwolise 2007; Oche 2011; Oshewolo 2018a, 2019b, 2019c).…”

Section: Nigeria’s Major Interventions In Ecowasmentioning

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“…The introduction of the ECPF, in particular, marked a watershed for contemporary security efforts in Africa. It was the first time a regional organisation in Africa would come up with such an elaborate conflict prevention framework, ahead of the other RECs and also the AU (Alli 2012; Oshewolo 2019b). In addition, Nigeria has contributed to the peace processes in specific countries such as Cote d’Ivoire, the Casamance (Senegal), Guinea and Togo, among others (Anyaoku 2013; Oshewolo 2019c).…”

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“…It was the first time a regional organisation in Africa would come up with such an elaborate conflict prevention framework, ahead of the other RECs and also the AU (Alli 2012; Oshewolo 2019b). In addition, Nigeria has contributed to the peace processes in specific countries such as Cote d’Ivoire, the Casamance (Senegal), Guinea and Togo, among others (Anyaoku 2013; Oshewolo 2019c). As rightly stated by Dede (2012, 210), the ECOWAS’ frameworks for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts appear to have ‘succeeded in receiving commendation from all and sundry, except that no sooner is one conflict resolved than another more serious conflict breaks out’.…”

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Nigeria in ECOWAS Politics: Major Contributions, Dividends and Setbacks

Oshewolo,

Azeez,

Adesanya

et al. 2023

Insight on Africa

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This article examines Nigeria’s interventions in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Relying on data from key ranking bodies, memoirs of retired career ambassadors, general library materials and thematic data analysis, the study observes that Nigeria’s interventions in ECOWAS have not only been remarkable, they have also allowed the country to consolidate its position as the undisputed leader in West Africa. While the platform of ECOWAS has allowed Nigeria to pursue some noble objectives, there are some inconveniences associated with this policy orientation. These contradictions, which have sometimes constrained Nigeria’s diplomacy in West Africa and contracted the returns, include the anti-Nigerian sentiments from some Francophone members of ECOWAS, occasional unfriendly attitude of some small West African countries, and Nigeria’s worsening security challenges that are now spilling into neighbouring countries. Appropriate policy measures are also provided to counteract these contradictions.

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The framework of “role conceptions” and Nigeria's external engagements

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Oniemola,

Azeez

et al. 2024

World Affairs

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This article relies on the intellectual framework of “national role conceptions” to explain Nigeria's wide‐ranging international obligations. Although Nigeria has a rich foreign policy literature, this framework is rarely directly employed in analyzing the country's many external engagements and the motives behind them. Nigeria has always assumed international roles that are in tandem with its fundamental foreign policy objectives. These roles are inspired by the identities that the country has constructed and projected for itself overtime and the expectations of peers (or other actors). Nigeria's constructive external engagements and role performance notwithstanding, there have been some misalignments. These include the sorry state of Nigeria's foreign missions, domestic contradictions, and the fact that Nigeria has sometimes behaved sluggishly in its role performance. This work recommends that Nigeria's diplomatic missions must be adequately financed, the domestic contradictions leading to disputation over foreign policy roles must be addressed, and Nigeria must overcome its occasional complacencies in Africa.

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Rhetoric and Praxis: Nigeria’s Africa Diplomacy and the Shaping of the African Union

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

“Instrumentalizing” The United Nations: Nigeria and Its Quest for Regional Leadership in Africa

“Instrumentalizing” The United Nations: Nigeria and Its Quest for Regional Leadership in Africa

Nigeria in ECOWAS Politics: Major Contributions, Dividends and Setbacks

The framework of “role conceptions” and Nigeria's external engagements

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