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Nonalignment in Africa

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  • Thomas Patrick Melady

    (Africa Service Institute of New York City, Lecturer at St. John's University, Jamaica, New York)

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The African states are committed to political nonalignment. They do not wish to associate themselves for mally with the political interest of any power bloc outside of Africa. This springs primarily from the obsession of the in dependent African states to defeat the triple curse of poverty, illiteracy, and disease. Any involvement in cold-war activities would deter them from their goal. Nonalignment in Africa also means that Africans have their own values, their "own way" of doing things. In some cases these values and methods will be similar to one or several of the major powers; at other times there will be great differences. Nonalignment will give the peoples of Africa an opportunity to crystallize their own ideology. This ideology will be eclectic, indigenous, and vari able. Its own roots will be African, as will its fruit.

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  • Thomas Patrick Melady, 1965. "Nonalignment in Africa," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 362(1), pages 52-61, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:362:y:1965:i:1:p:52-61
    DOI: 10.1177/000271626536200107
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