Suchergebnisse

Imagine a conference of West African heads of state or government held in 1870 to discuss what West Africa would be like in the year 1900. The list of participants at such a conference might well have included Lat Dior, the darnel of Cayor (Senegal), Samouri Toure (Guinea), his enemy Tie-ba of Sikasso, the President of Liberia, Obas of Benin and Lagos, King Gezo, King Gelele, King Tofa (Porto Novo), King Ja-ja (Opobo), Chief Na-na (Itshekiri), Sultan Attahiru of Sokoto, and Asantehene Prempeh.

Part I provides a kaleidoscopic view of the problem of economic development and foreign policy in Nigeria. In Part II, some of the operational forces - domestic and external - that have a crucial impact on Nigeria's economic development process are analysed. The central role of Nigeria's energy sector, with particular reference to oil is treated in Part III. In Part IV, the papers dwell on the part which relevant public institutions play and should play as catalytic agents in the execution of foreign policy for domestic economic development