True Leader In Africa—Impossibility of Pax Nigeriana and Africana: Muammar Gaddafi’s Conditionality and France-Africa Partnership

Pax Africana, is an advocacy doctrine made in Professor Ali Mazrui’s book, Towards a Pax Africana, in 1967. The advocacy doctrine asked all African leaders to be responsible for and take ownership of peace, security, and development in Africa. It asked African leaders to seek African solutions to African problems without undue recourse to external help. More importantly, African leaders were required to mobilise their native resources for self-governance and development. Responsively, Pax Africana was institutionalised by the African Union in various forms: establishment of an African Union Peace and Security Council, African Standby Force, etc.

Most unfortunately, however, neither the Pax Africana nor Pax Nigeriana has achieved the objective of the doctrine as espoused by Professor Mazrui for one reason not far-fetched: Africa’s regional military operations remain largely dependent on foreign logistics and international funding.

In the same vein, Pax Nigeriana is a Nigerian ambition to be a benevolent ‘Big Brother’ in the conduct and management of intra-African relations. As a benevolent big brother, Nigeria wants to provide leadership in the quest for regional stability and conflict resolution..CONTINUE FULL READING>>>