The Journal of Modern African Studies

Table of Contents - 1976 - Volume 14, Issue 04  

Articles

Reflections on the Preoccupation and Conduct of African Diplomacy

R. A. Akindele*

A Large volume of transactions between states goes through bilateral channels associated with traditional diplomacy. Accordingly, each independent African state has established its network of formal contacts with those members of the international community it considers friendly, and who similarly reciprocate this gesture of good will. Indeed, a noticeable world-wide trend in the last decade has been to diversify and intensify such diplomatic contacts because of the increasing complexity and interdependence of the contemporary international system. But bilateral relations between states, pervasive as they are, by no means constitute the totality of channels of international transactions.

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* Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Ife, Ile-Ife.