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Title: | Africa between Gandhi and Nehru: An Afro-Asian Interaction |
Author: | Mazrui, Ali A. |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | Africa Quarterly |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 1-20 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa India |
Subjects: | foreign policy biographies (form) Development and Technology Politics and Government Economics and Trade Law, Human Rights and Violence international relations |
About person: | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) |
Abstract: | Mahatma Gandhi's strategy of civil disobedience and Jawaharlal Nehru's principle of nonalignment have had special significance for Africa. Gandhi's 'satyagraha' inspired many African political figures. Nehru's ideas about what used to be called 'positive neutralism' helped to shape African approaches to foreign policy in the entire postcolonial era. What has seldom been adequately examined is the reverse flow of influence from Africa on both Gandhi's vision of passive resistance and Nerhu's concept of nonalignment. The present author argues that experience in the southern part of Africa must be counted as part of the genesis of Gandhi's political philosophy. And the 1956 Suez war in the northern part of Africa was probably a major influence on Nehru's vision of nonalignment. Notes, ref. |