The Afro-Arab Alliance: A Dream or Reality?

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Title:	The Afro-Arab Alliance: A Dream or Reality?
Author:	Akinsanya, Adeoye A.
Year:	1980
Periodical:	Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria
Volume:	10
Issue:	2
Period:	June
Pages:	87-104
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Africa Arab countries Northern Africa Egypt
Subjects:	international relations African organizations Inter-African Relations
Abstract:	One of the major problems undermining the Organisation of African Unity as an effective instrument of African unity is the perennial Arab-Israeli conflict. Conversely the low degree of Arab commitment to Pan-Africanism is frequently attributed to the attitudes of many leaders of black Africa to Arab struggles against Zionism and western imperialisn. The author examines Arab commitment to Pan-Africanism, Egypt's role in Africa, the emergence of power blocs in Africa, the new phase in Arab-African relations consequent upon the de-radicalisation of Egypt's African policy following the Monrovia conference in 1961, and the emergence of Afro-Arab solidarity at the Addis Ababa summit in 1973 when Egypt's struggle against Zionism was equated with the liberation of southern Africa. Notes.