Abstract
Traditionally Africa has had a low priority on the United States foreign policy agenda. Until the 1970s Washington was content to allow the European powers to uphold Western interests on the continent, the only major United States intervention being in the Congo where the departing colonial power was perceived to be too weak to resolve the post-independence chaos and preclude Soviet influence in this strategically located territory. Although successive administrations voiced support for the principle of selfdetermination and an orderly transition to independence, a sympathy with nationalist aspirations was subordinated to the cultivation of relations with European allies whenever the two policy objectives were in conflict. This was most obvious in United States policies towards Portugal prior to the April 1974 coup.1 In the last decade American involvement in the continent's
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