The 1980s usher in what we may call a sad and melancholy state of affairs in the practice, art, and science of communication. The turn of the decade is definitely marked by international disputes that put Africa and Africans across the diaspora in a peculiarly volatile position. Besides Africa, the Third World as a whole is confronted with a neo-Eurocentric conservatism that threatens the basic rights of the oppressed in the world who are trying to gain their freedom from America, Europe, and their surrogates in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and the rest of the Third World countries. America had its debacle with Iran and the Soviet Union its with Afghanistan. The United States is at the verge of performing dysfunctionally in Africa through surreptitious and direct assistance to South Africa and those determined to undermine African independence. Europe relentlessly resists efforts by Africans, north and south, east and west, to unite for the common good of the African. The Eurocentric perspective on basic human relations still holds a vicious grip on the relations that exist between African states and their