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France, especially, has for years exploited this fear-if, in fact, she did not herself originally invoke it-to create walls of suspicion between those states and Nigeria. And Nigeria, on her part, has been extraordinarily sensitive and careful not to appear to be the demon she is suspected of representing. In fact, she has been so sensitive and careful of her image in this regard that, at least in her foreign policy, she has often appeared timid and impotent. Fortunately, she rid herself of this unnecessary yoke with her firm and fearless action in the Angolan civil war.
Thus the most significant source of the weakness of the OAU could be traced to this yoking together of both nationalist and pan-Africanist sentiments in a pact of imbalance, in which nationalism is allowed to supersede continental interests. ) Africa in World Affairs, (New York: The Third Press, 1972) pp. ) It has been quite a long time since 1963. In 1961 when Haile Selassie called for the creation of an organisation of African States: Nigeria, the OAU and the Continental Interest 31 ... the basic and fundamental task of which will be to furnish the mechanism whereby problems which arise on the continent and which are of primary interest to the region could, in the first instance, be dealt with by Africans, in an African forum, free from outside influence and pressure.
Since then she has tended to see civil wars elsewhere only in the light of her own experience. Thus she has gradually become a champion of the inviolability of territorial integrity. An example of this was her role in the re cent Zairian civil war, in which she acted as a neutral mediator instead of forcefully condemning the interference of France, in particular, but also of Belgium and Morocco. It could be inferred that she played that role only because she did not wish to appear hypocritical.