Abstract
While there have been scholarly studies that address Nigeria’s diplomacy and contribution to the African Union (AU), many of them have failed to compare and contrast how those have added to the socio-economic development of Nigeria. We encountered a few instances where attempts were made to explain such, yet a fully-fledged analysis lacked in their conclusions. We applied documentary analysis methodology in our review and found that there is a serious misalignment between Nigeria’s diplomacy and support for the African Union on one hand and positive socio-economic development in Nigeria on the other. The study also looks at exploring how the general framework of Nigeria’s foreign policy goals and strategies in Africa can serve both its national interest and the overall development goals of Africa. We argue that for Nigeria’s role in the AU to be meaningful, the country needs to simultaneously revive its internal socio-economic condition.
Highlights
As an up-grade of the defunct Organization of African Unity (OAU), the African Union (AU) is a continental union made up of 54 independent African states
The measure of support it provided to freedom fighters in Africa is exemplified in the extra-ordinary role it played in bringing to an end apartheid regime in South Africa
Nigeria’s foreign policy revolves around Africa as the centrepiece and it has remained so from regime to regime. For this purpose Nigeria played a crucial role in the formation of the OAU
Summary
As an up-grade of the defunct Organization of African Unity (OAU), the African Union (AU) is a continental union made up of 54 independent African states. Since inception, AU has adopted some vital new documents establishing codes of conducts and diverse regulations at continental level in order to complement the already existing ones before the transformation of the union from defunct OAU. These include the AU Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (2003); the African Charter on Democracy; Elections and Governance (2007), and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and its associated Declaration on Democracy, Political, Economic and Corporate Governance. This study utilised qualitative method of research reliant on documentary analysis to reassess Nigeria’s foreign policy within the umbrella of AU and how it has fared in relation to Nigeria’s socioeconomic values
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