African American Foreign Relations Case Study

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Jean Paul (2012:2) contend That power extent its foreign relations has moved towards sectors that tend to emphasize other values and priorities African unity, the economy, the social debt of apartheid and the needs of the majority black population The core idea was to foster an African Renaissance. that would turn the forgotten continent” into a vibrant actor on the international arena and above all break free from foreign exploitation and intervention under the mantra of African solutions to African

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