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Title:The Changing Pattern of Nigeria's International Economic Relations: The Decline of the Colonial Nexus, 1960-1966
Author:Ojedokun, Olasupo
Year:1972
Periodical:Journal of Developing Areas
Volume:6
Issue:4
Period:July
Pages:535-553
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:neocolonialism
international trade
international relations
Economics and Trade
Development and Technology
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4189939
http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1311634437
Abstract:One universal feature of postcolonial foreign policy was a pattern of external economic relations predetermined by the ex-metropolitan power. Nigeria's reaction to this colonial economic heritage was a mixture of acceptance and rejection. For over a year of independence, the regional and federal governments accepted the Lagos-London economic axis, but from the end of 1961 efforts were made to move away from this colonial nexus so that Nigeria's economic relations would become truly international. This article analyzes the factors, economic and political, domestic and foreign, which shaped the character of the country's international economic ties. It examines further the extent to which these ties reflected the general character of the country's diplomacy. Parts: The colonial economic nexus - Strengthening the colonial nexus, 1958-61 - The weakening of the colonial nexus - Establishing new economic links - Conclusion. Notes.
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